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Timberly Baker – Journal of School Choice, 2024
This research article explores the socio-historical and contemporary context of Black home education within the Black Belt of the American South through a literature review. This literature review aims to uncover the historical evolution, socio-cultural dynamics, and contemporary challenges and opportunities associated with Black home education in…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, African Americans, African American History, United States History
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Li Chen – History of Education, 2024
This article employs the method of prosopography to reach a deeper understanding of a group of 53 trailblazing Chinese students who were the first to enrol in American law schools between 1878 and 1911, during the waning years of the Qing era. Most of them contributed greatly to the subsequent development of China's legal and diplomatic…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Law Students, United States History, Chinese Americans
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Pinkney, Adrianne R. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2016
Participatory citizenship among Black citizens in the United States has always been tied to access to quality education. In this literature review, I draw on scholarship analyzing the experiences of Black youth in the 19th, 20th, and early 21st centuries. I compare the historic and contemporary challenges facing Black citizens' active…
Descriptors: Educational History, United States History, African American Students, Barriers
Bryski, Crystal – Online Submission, 2009
This action research project sets out to identify which component of multi-text instruction is most effective in increasing the reading comprehension level of middle school students with learning disabilities. The research is going to be conducted over a two-week time period during the Spring 2009 with three male middle school students with…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Action Research