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Cudeiro, Amalia; Palumbo, Joe; Leight, Jan; Nelsen, Jeff – Leadership, 2005
More and more schools in California and across the nation are showing that when school communities accept the possibility and responsibility of bringing all of their students to proficiency levels, they can do amazing things. Six schools located in southern California--Martin Luther King and Harvey of Santa Ana Unified, Morrison Elementary of…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Academic Achievement, Student Improvement, Literacy
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Fisher, Maisha T. – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2006
This article examines the role of two African American-owned and -operated bookstores in the literacy practices and education of their participants. Part of a larger ethnographic study of Participatory Literacy Communities (PLCs), this study shows how featured authors and audience participants considered these bookstores as both alternative and…
Descriptors: African Americans, Books, Retailing, African American Businesses