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Kolluri, Suneal – American Journal of Education, 2023
Purpose: Much scholarly hand-wringing has concerned the academic engagement of Black and Latino boys. At the center of these conversations are questions of culture. Cultural disconnects between home and school are profound for students from marginalized communities, particularly so for young men. Prudence Carter asserts that young men in urban…
Descriptors: Masculinity, Males, Cultural Influences, High School Students
Sokal, Laura; Thiem, Cassandra; Crampton, Amanda; Katz, Herb – Canadian Journal of Education, 2009
This study examined the effects of the gender of reading tutors on 173 third and fourth grade mainly inner-city boys identified as struggling readers. Reading achievement ("Alberta Diagnostic Reading Program") and reader self-perceptions ("Readers' Self-Perception Scale") were monitored over a 22-week reading intervention.…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries