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Person, Dawn R.; Kaveh, Haydeh; García, Yvonne; Carsey, Timothy A. – Urban Education, 2021
Urban community leaders describe their perceptions of critical issues in education and offer recommendations for the creation of a college-going culture (CGC). This qualitative study employed a maximum entropy analysis. Results demonstrate critical issues with increasing educational attainment including complexity of the urban school system,…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Urban Youth, Urban Schools, Elementary Schools
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Cooper, Robert; Davis, Jonathan C. W. – Journal of Negro Education, 2015
Using data from a multi-year study of eleven low-performing high schools, Cooper and Davis examine the academic aspirations and motivations of urban African American high school students in California. Situating their discussion within the context of neoliberalism and its manifestation in urban school reform and community cohesion, the authors…
Descriptors: African American Students, High School Students, Academic Aspiration, Student Motivation