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Direct linkChenoweth, Karin – Harvard Education Press, 2021
In "Districts That Succeed," long-time education writer Karin Chenoweth turns her attention from effective schools to effective districts. Leveraging new, cutting-edge national research on district performance as well as in-depth reporting, Chenoweth profiles five districts that have successfully broken the correlation between race,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
Larson, Joanne; Duret, Eleni; Atkins, Grant – Teachers College Press, 2022
Hip-hop, born after the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, is an expression and embodiment of liberation. This book explores the creative liberation, political liberation, and communicative liberation for youth as one exemplar of culturally sustaining pedagogy. The authors share what students and teachers learned in a high school class where…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, Cultural Capital, Culturally Relevant Education
Gilberto Q. Conchas – Teachers College Press, 2024
The first edition of "The Color of Success" was a groundbreaking, asset-based exploration of the educational trajectories of high-achieving, low-income students within urban schools. The author brings his now seminal book up to date with insights based on existing and new research, current policies, and innovative pedagogical approaches.…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Low Income Students, Urban Schools, Minority Group Students
Eisenhart, Margaret A.; Weis, Lois – Harvard Education Press, 2022
"STEM Education Reform in Urban High Schools" gives a nuanced view of the obstacles marginalized students face in STEM education--and explores how schools can better support STEM learners. Reporting the results of a nine-year ethnographic study, the book chronicles the outcomes of various STEM education reforms in eight public high…
Descriptors: High Schools, STEM Education, Urban Schools, Educational Change
Rivera-McCutchen, Rosa L. – Teachers College Press, 2021
Educators often invoke the term "care" to describe why they entered the field and what compels them to continue. This book argues that care, as typically described and enacted, is not sufficient for leading schools, particularly those serving Black and Latinx children. Instead, school leaders need to embrace "radical care."…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Urban Schools, Public Schools, Principals
Brown, Bryan A. – Harvard Education Press, 2019
"Science in the City" examines how language and culture matter for effective science teaching. Author Bryan A. Brown argues that, given the realities of our multilingual and multicultural society, teachers must truly understand how issues of culture intersect with the fundamental principles of learning. This book links an exploration of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Student Diversity, Culturally Relevant Education, Urban Schools
Seider, Scott; Graves, Daren – Harvard Education Press, 2020
"Schooling for Critical Consciousness" addresses how schools can help Black and Latinx youth resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes. Scott Seider and Daren Graves draw on a four-year longitudinal study examining how five different mission-driven urban high schools foster critical consciousness among…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, African American Students, Racial Bias, Social Justice
Milner, H. Richard, IV – Harvard Education Press, 2020
In the thoroughly revised second edition of "Start Where You Are, But Don't Stay There," H. Richard Milner IV addresses the knowledge and insights required on the part of teachers and school leaders to serve students of color. Milner focuses on a crucial issue in teacher training and professional education: the need to prepare teachers…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Achievement Gap, Equal Education, Teacher Education
Hanes, Jay Michael, Ed.; Weisman, Eleanor, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2020
Grounded in philosophy from John Dewey and Maxine Greene, this book sheds light on difficulties and practicalities of examining culture and politics within the realm of interdisciplinary education. Providing both theoretical and concrete examples of the importance of a contemporary arts education, this book offers imaginative ways the arts and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Politics of Education, Democracy, Interdisciplinary Approach
Morrell, Ernest, Ed.; Rowsell, Jennifer, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2019
Challenging the assumption that access to technology is pervasive and globally balanced, this book explores the real and potential limitations placed on young people's literacy education by their limited access to technology and digital resources. Drawing on research studies from around the globe, "Stories from Inequity to Justice in Literacy…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Equal Education, Access to Computers, Disadvantaged
Weiner, Lois; Jerome, Daniel – Teachers College Press, 2016
This significantly revised edition will help prospective and new city teachers navigate the realities of city teaching. Now the classic introduction to urban teaching, this book explains how global, national, state, and local reforms have impacted what teachers need to know to not only survive, but to do their jobs well. The Third Edition melds…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Moral Values, Teaching Methods
Conchas, Gilberto Q., Ed.; Hinga, Briana M., Ed.; Abad, Miguel N., Ed.; Gutierrez, Kris D., Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2019
"The Complex Web of Inequality in North American Schools" analyzes and challenges the critical gaps and inequalities that persist in the American school system. Showing how historical biases have been inherited in current polices relating to non-dominant youth, the text calls for educational reforms that perform in the name of social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Educational Change, Social Justice
Margolis, Jane – MIT Press, 2017
The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately low. And relatively few African American and Latino/a high school students receive the kind of institutional encouragement, educational opportunities, and preparation needed for them to choose computer science as a…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Computer Science Education, Disproportionate Representation
Tsuneyoshi, Ryoko, Ed.; Okano, Kaori H., Ed.; Boocock, Sarane, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This volume examines how Japan's increasingly multicultural population has impacted on the lives of minority children and their peers at school, and how schools are responding to this trend in terms of providing minority children with opportunities and preparing them for the adult society. The contributors focus on interactions between individuals…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Minority Group Children, Housing, Social Change
Martino, Wayne; Rezai-Rashti, Goli – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This book provides an illuminating account of teachers' own reflections on their experiences of teaching in urban schools. It was conceived as a direct response to policy-related and media-generated concerns about male teacher shortage and offers a critique of the call for more male role models in elementary schools to address important issues…
Descriptors: Role Models, Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Males
