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Jones, Vanessa; Stewart, Carmine; Galletta, Anne; Ayala, Jennifer – Teachers College Record, 2015
The chapter examines youth participation within three intergenerational collectives using participatory action research (PAR) to address educational policies youth viewed as counterproductive to their education. Outlining the complexity of youth voice, the multiple vehicles within the arts through which youth voice is expressed, and the different…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Action Research, Participatory Research, Student Empowerment
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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