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Direct linkKathy Chau Rohn – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background/Context: The "college-for-all" movement has guided education reform efforts over the last few decades. Of college-for-all adopters, the "no-excuses" charter school model is arguably the most successful and controversial. Schools that use this model produce high standardized test scores and four-year college…
Descriptors: College Readiness, High School Students, Models, Success
Carter Andrews, Dorinda J. – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: Despite a history of racial oppression and degradation in U.S. schools, African Americans have responded to racism and discrimination in ways that promote educational attainment and school success. Many Black adolescents have been empowered to succeed academically partly because of their awareness of racist practices in…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Resilience (Psychology), Racial Discrimination, Racial Identification
Kirshner, Ben; Pozzoboni, Kristen M. – Teachers College Record, 2011
Background/Context: School closure is becoming an increasingly common policy response to underperforming urban schools. Districts typically justify closure decisions by pointing to schools' low performance on measures required by No Child Left Behind. Closures disproportionately fall on schools with high percentages of poor and working-class…
Descriptors: Action Research, School Closing, Urban Schools, Low Income Groups
