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Direct linkGibbs Grey, ThedaMarie – Urban Education, 2022
This case study examines how relationships with staff in a GEAR-UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) pre-college program positively influenced the college-going aspirations of Black ninth-grade students. Critical Race Theory and Possible Selves provide an intersecting analytical framework for understanding the…
Descriptors: Blacks, African American Students, Grade 9, Academic Aspiration
Acevedo-Gil, Nancy – Urban Education, 2022
Latina/o/x students aspire to earn a college degree but given that they likely attend urban high schools with inadequate educational opportunities and high-discipline environments, more research is needed to examine the influence of institutional racism on aspirations. This case study was guided by the frameworks of New Juan Crow in Education and…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Racism, Student Experience, Educational Environment
Cilesiz, Sebnem; Drotos, Stephanie M. – Urban Education, 2016
This qualitative study investigates high-poverty urban high school students' views of and plans regarding higher education, using Bourdieu's theory of reproduction in education as theoretical framework. Interview data from 76 students from six high-poverty urban schools in a metropolitan area in the Midwestern United States were analyzed using…
Descriptors: Poverty, Urban Schools, High Schools, Qualitative Research
Chhuon, Vichet; Hudley, Cynthia; Brenner, Mary E.; Macias, Roseanne – Urban Education, 2010
Educational policy usually overlooks Cambodian American students as a unique ethnic group, attending instead to the positive statistics that aggregate Asian American students into a single group of successful students. Through ethnographic interviews, this article examines how successful Cambodian American students interpreted values from their…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Cambodians, Ethnic Groups, Immigrants
Holland, Nicole E. – Urban Education, 2011
This investigation demonstrates the effect that peers have on students' academic engagement and educational aspirations. Forty-nine African American university students retrospectively discuss the manner by which their friends influenced their academic commitment and activity while in high school; their postsecondary education aspirations,…
Descriptors: African American Students, Peer Relationship, Context Effect, Academic Aspiration
