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Making Mathematical Practices Explicit in Urban Middle and High School Mathematics Classrooms
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Selling, Sarah Kate – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2016
To learn mathematical practices, students need opportunities to engage in them. But simply providing such opportunities may not be sufficient to support all students. Simultaneously, explicitly teaching mathematical practices could be problematic if instruction becomes prescriptive. This study investigated how teachers might make mathematical…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction
Make-Her-Spaces as Hybrid Places: Designing and Resisting Self Constructions in Urban Classrooms
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Norris, Aaminah – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2014
This qualitative study analyzes how an urban schoolteacher guided her 19 tenth grade Latina and African American young women in developing positive self-concepts as expressed through the implementation of design thinking processes. This work examines how young women who had limited access to digital media negotiated their identities as they…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Grade 10, Females, High School Students
Safe, Affirming, and Productive Spaces: Classroom Engagement among Latina High School Students
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Cooper, Kristy S. – Urban Education, 2013
Responding to recent reports that Latina students often lack feelings of belonging at school and are dropping out in increasing numbers, this study explores how classroom environments influence engagement or disengagement among Latina students. Through case studies with five Latina 10th-grade students, this research examines how variations in the…
Descriptors: Females, Hispanic American Students, Learner Engagement, High School Students
"So We Have to Teach Them or What?": Introducing Preservice Teachers to the Figured Worlds of Urban Youth through Digital Conversation
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Seglem, Robyn; Garcia, Antero – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background: Extant literature contends that it can be difficult for White preservice teachers to develop culturally relevant curriculum for the diverse students whom they will encounter in classrooms. Though there is a significant body of research about culturally responsive pedagogy, teacher education programs have struggled with how to best…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Culturally Relevant Education, Urban Youth
Making and Measuring the California History Standards
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Fogo, Bradley – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
The California history and social science standards-based reform has been touted as the "gold standard" for state history curricula. But the standards, framework, and tests that constitute this reform provide inconsistent and contradictory criteria for teaching and assessing history and social science. An examination of the political…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Social Sciences, Academic Standards, Course Content
Asian American Education: Identities, Racial Issues, and Languages. Research on the Education of Asian Pacific Americans
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Rong, Xue Lan, Ed.; Endo, Russell, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
Asian American Education--Asian American Identities, Racial Issues, and Languages presents groundbreaking research that critically challenges the invisibility, stereotyping, and common misunderstandings of Asian Americans by disrupting "customary" discourse and disputing "familiar" knowledge. The chapters in this anthology…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Asian American Students, Grade 10, Mathematics Achievement