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Young Children Manifest Spiritualities in Their Hip-Hop Writing
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Norton, Nadjwa E. L. – Education and Urban Society, 2014
In this article, the author combines multicultural feminist critical theories with the voices of Black and Latina/Latino young spiritual children to extend culturally responsive teaching. The author illuminates how children use their hip-hop writing to construct themselves as people who communicate with God, choose spiritual content for their…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Popular Culture, African American Children, Hispanic Americans
A Comprehensive Partnership Approach Increasing High School Graduation Rates and College Enrollment of Urban Economically Disadvantaged Youth
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Morgan, Yvette; Sinatra, Richard; Eschenauer, Robert – Education and Urban Society, 2015
Described is a 4-year model of a Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program (GEAR UP) offered to 294 academically and economically disadvantaged students and their parents during in- and out-of-school time activities through partnerships forged with school personnel and community-based agencies. In an urban high school where…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Disadvantaged Youth, High School Students, Minority Group Students
A Prekindergarten Program: Policy Implications of the Research.
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Horan, Mary D.; And Others – Education and Urban Society, 1980
The New York State Experimental Prekindergarten Program, which operates in 52 school districts, is designed to reduce potential educational deficits of economically disadvantaged children. This article reports on the program's effects on cognitive functioning of children in their kindergarten years and discusses implications for educational…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged