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William T. Heard Jr.; Mary E. Yakimowski – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2024
While much has been studied addressing the topic of academic resilience, few researchers have examined adolescent perceptions of the factors that contribute to school success. This qualitative interpretive study explored individual protective factors that can promote academic resilience in urban middle school students. One-on-one interviews (N=20)…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Academic Persistence
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Ramón Antonio Martínez; Danny C. Martinez – Urban Education, 2024
In this article, we recount our experiences learning from and with Latinx children of immigrants in urban schools. Highlighting how insights gleaned from our respective ethnographic projects have led us to embrace more explicit commitments to participatory engagement, we consider how young people's perspectives can and should fundamentally shift…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Immigrants, Urban Education, Urban Schools
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Eduardo López; Jorge López; Roxana Dueñas – Urban Education, 2024
This article focuses on the ways the authors incorporate a transformational resistance framework in their ninth-grade ethnic studies curriculum. While literature on transformational resistance often highlights external forms of resistance, there is a need to examine the internal transformation youth experience when engaging in resistance. The…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Grade 9, High School Students, Ethnic Studies
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Lauren M. Slagus; Angela M. Kelly – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Background: This study explored science teachers' participation in a professional development partnership with informal science institutions (ISIs) designed for urban middle school science teachers, known as the "Urban Advantage Science Initiative." The teacher training involved a whole school focused approach, providing teaching…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Professional Development, Urban Education, Science Teachers
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Alexandra Thrall; T. Philip Nichols; Kevin R. Magill – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine how young people imagine civic futures through speculative fiction writing about artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The authors argue that young people's speculative fiction writing about AI not only helps make visible the ways they imagine the impacts of emerging technologies and the modes…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Futures (of Society), Fiction
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Ijeoma Opara; Daneele Thorpe; David T. Lardier Jr. – Urban Education, 2024
Leveraging publicly available data about schools" absenteeism from the New Jersey Department of Education, the present study examined how neighborhood-level resource deprivation and violent crime related to chronic absenteeism in Passaic County's elementary, middle, and high schools. Results highlighted geographic disparities in Passaic…
Descriptors: Attendance, Neighborhoods, Socioeconomic Status, Violence