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Martin, Kacy – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The racial achievement gap has persisted in the decades since "Brown v. Board," despite large-scale investment in school reform. Accordingly, some administrators and politicians are reconsidering integration policies as a means of addressing the gap. This study examines one Chicago community's discussion of such integration policy.…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Parent Attitudes, School Desegregation, Educational Policy
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Cipollone, Mary – Afterschool Matters, 2006
People who read become absorbed in a process of discovery about the world around them; books open doors to otherwise inaccessible places and introduce readers to profound new ideas. Approximately 15 seventh-, eighth-, and ninth-grade members of the StreetSquash Book Club in Harlem meet on Friday afternoons to read, write, and discuss topics…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Young Adults, Adolescent Literature, Novels