This study presents narrative case study vignettes of three elite African American male football athletes at a major historically White institution of higher education with a big-time athletics department. More specifically, I draw from critical race theory to garner insight into their secondary schooling background, what education means to them,…

How do marginalized parents construct their role in promoting their children's access to educational opportunity? What lessons might their experience have for our understanding of parent involvement beyond the parameters of traditional models? This qualitative case study examined the beliefs, goals, and practices of 16 working-class African…

This study suggests that there is no way of separating the academic reputation of a school from the popular image of its campus. (Author/AM)

This paper reviews the goals, hopes, and fears that were set forth for urban affairs programs in the early 1960's and uses the three programs which were visited as case studies to examine what has happened in three of the pioneer programs. (Author/AM)

The urban studies learning model described in this article was found to increase students' self-esteem, imbue a more flexible and open perspective, contribute to the capacity for self-direction, produce increases on the feeling reactivity, spontaneity, and acceptance of aggression scales, and expand interpersonal competence. (Author/WI)

Described and discussed in this article are the nature of student-client power, the history of events during the first year of college operations at Federal City College, and concrete organizational conditions which encourage or inhibit client power. (Author/EB)

Students in teacher-education programs can benefit from the experience of working in a multiagency, urban school collaboration site. A case study of one site is presented in which students learn about the diversity of urban schools while completing a service-learning project connected to an educational-psychology class. (Author/MMU)

Uses ethnographic sources and interviews with 3 university administrators and 14 elementary school teachers in a case-study approach to describe the development of a collaborative partnership between a university and an inner-city public school in southern California. Positive outcomes and deterrents to success are identified. (SLD)