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Beard, Karen Stansberry – Urban Education, 2018
This case study is the first known employing flow in educational administration in the United States. Using Csikszentmihalyi's flow theory and Dantley's purpose-driven leadership, an administrator's practices were examined with respect to two guiding questions: (a) is purposefulness integral to closing extant gaps in achievement, and (b) are the…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Achievement Gap, Educational Opportunities, Case Studies
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Allen, Quaylan; White-Smith, Kimberly – Urban Education, 2018
This study examines parental involvement practices, the cultural wealth, and school experiences of poor and working-class mothers of Black boys. Drawing upon data from an ethnographic study, we examine qualitative interviews with four Black mothers. Using critical race theory and cultural wealth frameworks, we explore the mothers' approaches to…
Descriptors: African Americans, Mothers, Parent Student Relationship, Sons
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Cilesiz, Sebnem; Drotos, Stephanie M. – Urban Education, 2016
This qualitative study investigates high-poverty urban high school students' views of and plans regarding higher education, using Bourdieu's theory of reproduction in education as theoretical framework. Interview data from 76 students from six high-poverty urban schools in a metropolitan area in the Midwestern United States were analyzed using…
Descriptors: Poverty, Urban Schools, High Schools, Qualitative Research
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Kohli, Rita – Urban Education, 2018
Despite recruitment efforts, teachers of Color are underrepresented and leaving the teaching force at faster rates than their White counterparts. Using Critical Race Theory to analyze and present representative qualitative narratives from 218 racial justice-oriented, urban teachers of color, this article affirms that urban schools--despite serving…
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Critical Theory
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Aviles de Bradley, Ann – Urban Education, 2015
A qualitative research study conducted in two public high schools in an urban area of the Midwest sought to explore the issue of race as it pertains to educational policy implementation for unaccompanied homeless youth of color. Critical Race Theory (CRT) served as the guiding frame and method, uncovering the underlying theme of race in school…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Educational Policy, Critical Theory, Race
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Boucher, Michael Lee, Jr. – Urban Education, 2016
This qualitative case study provides a counternarrative to the literature of White teachers who are unsuccessful in bridging the achievement gap and disrupts the assumed meaning of solidarity between successful White teachers and their African American students. As part of successful classroom practice, this teacher interrogated his own whiteness…
Descriptors: Whites, Males, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
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Harper, Shaun R. – Urban Education, 2015
The overwhelming majority of published scholarship on urban high schools in the United States focuses on problems of inadequacy, instability, underperformance, and violence. Similarly, across all schooling contexts, most of what has been written about young men of color continually reinforces deficit narratives about their educational possibility.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High School Students, Males, Adolescents
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Stillman, Jamy; Anderson, Lauren – Urban Education, 2016
This manuscript explores how one teacher educator worked to facilitate preservice teachers' (PSTs) learning across field- and university-based settings. Using socio-cultural learning theory as a lens, the analysis draws on case study data gathered for two PSTs from the same teacher education program (TEP), who experienced proximal, but…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Pennington, Julie L.; Brock, Cynthia H.; Ndura, Elavie – Urban Education, 2012
This study explored two White inservice teachers' understandings of Whiteness in relation to privilege and caring. A yearlong professional development set of courses used a multimodal construction of three significant course experiences designed to reposition Whiteness and illuminate White teachers' predisposition to care for their students in…
Descriptors: Caring, Advantaged, Whites, Elementary School Teachers
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Costigan, Arthur T. – Urban Education, 2013
This article presents 7 years of qualitative research into the emerging understandings of a population of 456 beginning 7 to 12 urban teachers who supplied 130 participants who were enrolled in a total of 26 MSEd English Language Arts courses over 7 years. These were interviewed while teaching in urban schools focused primarily on testing and…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Educational Change, Neoliberalism, Urban Teaching
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Khalifa, Muhammad A.; Jennings, Michael E.; Briscoe, Felecia; Oleszweski, Ashley M.; Abdi, Nimo – Urban Education, 2014
This case study describes tensions that became apparent between community members and school administrators after a proposal to close a historically African American public high school in a large urban Southwestern city. When members of the city's longstanding African American community responded with outrage, the school district's senior…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Data, Decision Making, School Closing
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Kimelberg, Shelley McDonough; Billingham, Chase M. – Urban Education, 2013
White flight from urban public schools has been well documented, but little attention has been paid to middle-class reinvestment in urban schools. This article combines findings from interviews with middle-class parents of Boston Public School students with demographic data from the city's public elementary schools to examine the motivations of…
Descriptors: School Choice, Middle Class, Racial Segregation, Public Schools
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Voithofer, Rick; Winterwood, Fawn – Urban Education, 2010
This study uses articulation theory to frame how social actors and institutions in an urban community in Columbus, Ohio, form linkages and understandings about computer and information literacies. Using interviews with 33 key educators (e.g., principals, computer literacy teachers, library media specialists, district integration specialists),…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Media Specialists, Information Literacy, Community Centers
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Thornberg, Robert – Urban Education, 2012
The aim of this study was to investigate multiprofessional collaboration as well as collaboration between professionals and challenging students and their parents in which the focus for these collaborations was on handling the challenging students' academic and social behavior. A grounded theory study of collaboration between a prereferral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grounded Theory, Social Behavior, Focus Groups
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Kennedy, Brianna L. – Urban Education, 2011
Students who are expelled from school often demonstrate the need for alternative learning environments that respond to their academic disengagement as well as their behavioral challenges. Teachers in such environments contend with a variety of student needs while attempting to engage students in the learning process. This grounded theory study…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Student Needs, Nontraditional Education, Teacher Characteristics
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