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Zyrashae Smith-Onyewu; Marc L. Stein; Juan B. Cortes; Paula Kim-Christian; Nathaniel Dewey – Research in Higher Education, 2025
Community colleges were established as affordable postsecondary education opportunities for all residents within their local areas. Typical measures of access to postsecondary institutions use binary indicators based on the presence of institutions within geographic areas or straight-line distance between student residences and college locations…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Transportation, Public Sector, Urban Schools
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Bilgen Kiral – Education and Urban Society, 2025
Collective responsibility means that teachers work in cooperation and collaboration, act, and solve problems together. When teachers act together, they can be more productive. Urban schools' principals prefer activity and project-based approaches in order to better integrate students into urban life, and for this, they work to ensure that teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Administrator Role, Principals, Urban Schools
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Loraine D. Cook – Education and Urban Society, 2024
This study examined stakeholders' views on parental involvement in students' school experiences at Eagle's Remedial School (a pseudonym). The school system has a diverse group of students, and stakeholders (such as teachers, parents, and principals) have varied parental involvement perceptions. The interactions between parents and other…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Parent Participation, Foreign Countries, Remedial Instruction
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Mordechay, Kfir; Ayscue, Jennifer B. – Education and Urban Society, 2024
College-educated White households have increasingly opted to live in central urban neighborhoods, transforming many parts of the urban core. While there is emerging evidence that schools may play a key part in this process, little is known about the extent of racial contract between children of gentrifier households and original residents. This…
Descriptors: Diversity, Racial Composition, Neighborhoods, Change
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Jemimah Young; John Williams III; Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán; Marlon James; Quinita Ogletree; Monica Neshyba; Cristina Worely – Urban Education, 2025
In the seminal work "But What Is Urban Education?" from 2012, Richard Milner proffered a typology to better represent urban spaces as conceptions of urbanization's evolution. The typology consists of three descriptors, to which each highlights the manner in which population density influences the availability of resources to support…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Content Analysis, Urban Education, Urban Areas
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Abiola Farinde-Wu; Melissa Winchell; Michael Baulier; Amy L. Cook – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
Systemic institutional racism in schools engenders different and difficult educational experiences for students of Color. Relatedly, there is an enduring divide between home and school that often influences school curricula, teachers' pedagogies, and students' educational progress. Considering this preclusion to learning, this case study gleans…
Descriptors: Racism, Social Justice, Curriculum Development, Elementary Schools
Ofem, Brandon; Phillips, Joan M.; Lauer, Dan; Palmer, John C. – Metropolitan Universities, 2023
Co-location tools of urban economic development, such as accelerators and incubators, can facilitate entrepreneurship. Of these tools, accelerators have proliferated in number and variety over the past couple of decades. However, growing evidence suggests that these programs are not equally effective, varying in form and function with disparate…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Research Universities, Urban Schools, College Role
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Raquel M. Rall – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
The goal of this article is to enhance understanding and appreciation of the current and potential role of trustees in urban community colleges. In working to make sure students are successful, trustees face numerous challenges in implementing high-impact policies and practices that center student success. This article establishes a node…
Descriptors: Trustees, Role, Urban Schools, Community Colleges
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Sueanne E. McKinney; Deana J. Ford; Cynthia Tomovic – Education and Urban Society, 2024
A qualitative content analysis was employed to examine what factors contributed to effective teachers' selection and retention in urban high poverty schools. First, the Star Teacher Interview was used to identify effective urban educators. Then, verbal interviews were conducted with star subjects to determine factors that contributed to their…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Urban Schools
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Yiting Chu; Weijia Wang – Urban Education, 2024
Urban teacher residency (UTR) has been promoted as a promising model to prepare teachers for urban schools. In this review, we analyzed 56 peer-reviewed, empirical journal articles on UTRs published between 2010 and 2020, following the PRISMA guidelines. While this literature suggested UTRs' potentials to recruiting and retaining diverse urban…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Urban Schools, Teacher Education, Experiential Learning
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Jeynes, William H. – Urban Education, 2024
This paper shares the results of a meta-analysis on the parental-expectations component of parental involvement and its relationship with the student outcomes of urban students. Special attention is paid to parental expectations, because in many past studies, parental expectations has been the most salient component of parental involvement. This…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Expectation, Parent Participation, Parent Attitudes
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Remy Stewart; Jerel M. Ezell – Urban Education, 2024
A popular alternative disciplinary framework from zero-tolerance school policies is restorative justice, which refers to a set of ideologies and practices that emphasize healing relationships in lieu of community exclusion. This work investigates the differences between ideological support for restorative approaches compared to program…
Descriptors: Restorative Practices, Urban Schools, High Schools, Attitudes
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Desiree Falzon; Elisabeth Conrad – Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education, 2024
Nature-based learning within the primary school curriculum offers numerous potential benefits. However, there is a lack of clarity about how school grounds can be designed to enable effective nature-based learning. There is also little knowledge of how specific features within green school grounds contribute to specific desirable outcomes, such as…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Outdoor Education, Curriculum Development, Facility Planning
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Dosun Ko; Aydin Bal; Alfredo J. Artiles – Urban Education, 2024
Racial disproportionality in school discipline is an enduring systemic problem whose patterns change from one context to another. In order to develop systemic solutions that are responsive to local contexts, school stakeholders' collective, agentic actions toward systemic changes are essential. Utilizing a participatory systemic design process led…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, Discipline, Race
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Sarah Fine – Journal of Educational Administration, 2024
Purpose: This paper features a narrative case study of a leadership team engaged in an effort to transform both culture and instructional practice at an urban charter school. The paper describes the team's effort to align their decision-making with two frameworks selected to anchor the school's institutional change process: restorative justice and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Restorative Practices, Administrators
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