There is continued concern over the inequitable distribution of highly experienced and effective teachers among historically marginalized student populations. Using longitudinal data from Tennessee, this study assesses whether students of racially/ethnically minoritized and economically disadvantaged backgrounds have unequal exposure to teachers…

Research suggests that work environments are associated with turnover patterns for teachers of Color. This study investigates variation in work environments using longitudinal administrative data from 20 large urban and suburban K-12 school districts. Results indicate that teachers of Color are more often employed in "hard-to-staff" work…

This work extends examination of African American students' attitudes toward learning and achievement to contrast the oppositional culture (Ogbu and Fordham) and cultural integrity perspectives. We assessed 200 students' responses to classrooms designed to support competitive, individualistic, communal or high-verve thinking, and behavior.…

This article addresses what we are calling "the gaps," the divergent and contextual understandings of "opportunity gap" and "achievement gap" evident in interviews with principals and school district leaders. Drawing from a sample of 22 interviews in urban, inner-ring suburban, and outer-ring suburban schools in a…

There are racial/ethnic disparities associated with school punishment practices and academic progress. In addition, research suggests that urban schools have stricter school punishment practices and higher grade retention rates. What remains unknown, however, is the relationship between race/ethnicity, school punishment practices, and retention…

This article interrogates the construction of ethnoracial categories in everyday classroom life and how ethnoracial classroom dynamics contribute to larger patterns of inequality in achievement and unequal college futures for minorities. The study compares one urban and two suburban schools. Drawing on observation data from six classes and 57…

This article makes the argument for a reframing and a reconceptualization of the urban-suburban divide which can inform the options and possibilities for transformative practices in urban schools. Drawing primarily from a Canadian, and more specifically a southern Ontario context, the article explores the changing realities of urban within this…

The educational aspirations of Black males in urban, suburban, and rural high schools were examined in this study, using a nationally-representative sample of respondents to the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS:88/00). Hierarchical linear regression analysis revealed statistically significant relationships between aspirations and SES,…

This study chronicles the historical divisions of race and class between Detroit and its suburban neighbor as an explanation for current tensions in the communities and schools. This analysis poses implications for educational apartheid and stark disparities between urban and suburban boundaries and consequent discomfort among practitioners when…

This study employed interviews with 10 bilingual Latino preservice teachers to explore their experiences with schooling and their observations while student teaching in suburban and urban schools. Findings reveal that participants' life experiences and unique responses to cultural conflicts influenced their ability to relate to Latino students and…

Research indicated that informal interaction among principals in an urban school district took place through verbal means in dyads and triads rather than in larger groups, and suggested patterns of upward mobility from teaching to the principalship. Findings were compared with results of a similar study in a suburban district. (Author/MJL)

Investigated the relationship between youth participation in extracurricular activities and a greater sense of school connection, particularly for non-European American students. Surveys of secondary school students from inner city, urban, and suburban neighborhoods indicated that students who participated in extracurricular activities, regardless…

Presents comparative analysis of the factors affecting urban- and suburban-based teachers' and administrators' reported job satisfaction; and discusses the implications for policymakers' behavior, actions, and policies. Findings are presented from 6 subject groups totalling over 10,000 teachers and over 500 administrators revealing significant…

Ten junior high schools and ten senior highs--among which were six city and fourteen suburban schools--in the Twin Cities metropolitan area were studied; their principals responded to a preliminary questionnaire and an "Organizational Health Description Questionnaire" was administered to all certified personnel at general faculty meetings. (JM)

Critical comments on an attempt to empirically test a conceptual scheme considered plausible and attractive but which has had little research exploration since the late 1960's reported in Kimpston and Sonnabend's proceeding article, "Public Secondary Schools: The Inter-relationships between Organizational Health and Innovativeness and between…