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Funds of Knowledge, Community Cultural Wealth, and the Forms of Capital: Strengths, Tensions, and Practical Considerations
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Rios-Aguilar, Cecilia; Neri, Rebecca Colina – Urban Education, 2023
Funds of Knowledge (FK), Community Cultural Wealth (CCW), and Bourdieu's analysis of capital (BAC) have each been applied in powerful ways to address complex issues of urban education; however, the overlaps and tensions between them have been largely underexplored. When brought together, these three economic metaphors--funds, wealth,…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Communities of Practice, Urban Education, Social Justice
School Absenteeism and Neighborhood Deprivation and Threat: Utilizing the Child Opportunity Index to Assess for Neighborhood-Level Disparities in Passaic County, NJ
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Ijeoma Opara; Daneele Thorpe; David T. Lardier Jr. – Urban Education, 2024
Leveraging publicly available data about schools" absenteeism from the New Jersey Department of Education, the present study examined how neighborhood-level resource deprivation and violent crime related to chronic absenteeism in Passaic County's elementary, middle, and high schools. Results highlighted geographic disparities in Passaic…
Descriptors: Attendance, Neighborhoods, Socioeconomic Status, Violence
Justice-Oriented Teaching Dispositions in Urban Education: A Critical Interpretive Case Study
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Butler, Bettie Ray; Coffey, Heather; Young, Jemimah Lee – Urban Education, 2021
The effects of professional teacher dispositions on student development have been widely documented. Yet there is limited discussion of the impact of socially just dispositions. The present study critically examines the relationship between justice-oriented mind-sets in preservice teachers and their perceptions of teaching in urban schools. Using…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Urban Education, Preservice Teachers, Correlation
Schools Matter: The Positive Relationship between New York City High Schools' Student Academic Progress and School Climate
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Davis, Jonathan Ryan; Warner, Nathan – Urban Education, 2018
This article investigates the link between school climate and student academic progress in New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) high schools. Using a data set compiled from 2010-2011 NYCDOE school-level aggregated demographic, survey, and progress report achievement data, the authors ran ordinary least squares regressions where they…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, High School Students
A Meta-Analysis: The Relationship between Father Involvement and Student Academic Achievement
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Jeynes, William H. – Urban Education, 2015
A meta-analysis was undertaken, including 66 studies, to determine the relationship between father involvement and the educational outcomes of urban school children. Statistical analyses were done to determine the overall impact and specific components of father involvement. The possible differing effects of paternal involvement by race were also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Meta Analysis, Fathers, Parent Participation
Tracking Success: High School Curricula and Labor Market Outcomes by Race and Gender
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Moller, Stephanie; Stearns, Elizabeth – Urban Education, 2012
Education researchers have established that educational tracking reinforces inequalities, but they have not fully examined the affect of these tracks on labor market outcomes for men and women of different races/ethnicities. At the same time, labor market researchers have studied the association between education and income by race and gender, but…
Descriptors: Educational Research, High Schools, Labor Force, Race