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Galletta, Anne; Ayala, Jennifer – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background/Context: With the growth of the small-school movement, many urban districts have restructured large underperforming high schools into new, small high schools or schools-within-a-school designed to engage adolescents in rigorous and meaningful learning along with strong teacher-student relationships. In the case of this study, the…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, School Closing, Urban Schools, Research Design
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Doerr, Neriko Musha – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2004
In this article, I offer a new interpretation of non-Maori parents' claim that a Maori/English bilingual school unit in Aotearoa/New Zealand is separatist. I show that while some use such a claim to defend monoculturalism and white hegemony, others use it to come to terms with Aotearoa/New Zealand's postcolonial nationhood, globalization, and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Bilingual Schools, Labeling (of Persons)