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Matias, Cheryl E.; Rucker, Jeremy – Whiteness and Education, 2018
This paper presents an analysis of how education reform in Denver Public Schools (DPS) fails to reach its targeted goal of closing achievement gaps between white students and Students of Colour based on its investment in Whiteness. Using a theoretical framework grounded in critical whiteness studies, we trace a history in DPS that includes legal…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Urban Education, Whites, White Students
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Eisenhart, Margaret; Weis, Lois; Allen, Carrie D.; Cipollone, Kristin; Stich, Amy; Dominguez, Rachel – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2015
In response to numerous calls for more rigorous STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education to improve US competitiveness and the job prospects of next-generation workers, especially those from low-income and minority groups, a growing number of schools emphasizing STEM have been established in the US over the past decade.…
Descriptors: High School Students, STEM Education, Educational Opportunities, Comparative Analysis
Jacobson, Linda – Education Week, 2005
In this article, the author discusses a partnership between Baylor University and the Waco public schools that embeds every teacher-candidate--from the freshman year on--into the K-12 system. To test whether professional-development schools, modeled after teaching hospitals, can be scaled up so that all of a college's teaching candidates--not just…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Teacher Education, Urban Schools