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Scholarship Girls Aren't the Only Chicanas Who Go to College: Former Chicana Continuation High School Students Disrupting the Educational Achievement Binary
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Malagon, Maria C.; Alvarez, Crystal R. – Harvard Educational Review, 2010
Drawing from extensive oral history interviews with five Chicana women, Malagon and Alvarez (re)conceptualize the way educational scholarship defines "high achieving." As attendees of California continuation high schools, all five women defy societal expectations by moving from these alternative educational spaces to community colleges,…
Descriptors: Continuation Students, Oral History, Critical Theory, Females
Charter Schools and Innovation: The High Tech High Model
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Neumann, Richard – American Secondary Education, 2008
This article examines the High Tech High charter school, the ideas and practices that influenced its development, and the school's impact on San Diego Unified School District, which authorized the charter. The Discussion analyzes the school's program using frameworks of social bonding theory and progressive educational theory and practice. Since…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Academic Achievement, Progressive Education, Educational Methods
The Los Angeles Riots Revisited: The Changing Face of the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Challenge for Educators
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Davis, Donna M. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2007
This article provides a brief history of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), including an analysis of the demographic shifts and the tensions between the African American and Korean American communities at the time of the Los Angeles riots in 1992. The article includes my own experiences teaching high school English during the…
Descriptors: African American Students, Racial Factors, Racial Relations, Violence