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Knight-Manuel, Michelle G.; Marciano, Joanne E.; Wilson, Michael; Jackson, Iesha; Vernikoff, Laura; Zuckerman, Kelly Gavin; Watson, Vaughn W. M. – Urban Education, 2019
This article examines how 18 teachers, counselors, administrators, and support staff from seven New York City public high schools collaborated during the Black and Latino Male Professional Development Initiative (a pseudonym) to develop a "culturally relevant, schoolwide, college-going culture" supportive of Black and Latino males'…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Urban Teaching, Culturally Relevant Education, Public Schools
Steele, Jennifer L.; Slater, Robert O.; Li, Jennifer; Zamarro, Gema; Miller, Trey; Bacon, Michael – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2018
Using input and outcome data from a randomized study of dual-language immersion programs in an urban district, we examine the mediating relationships of dosage, expenditures, and classroom characteristics to students' academic performance, and the moderating role of students' race/ethnicity. Differential costs of immersion were concentrated at the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Immersion Programs, Input Output Analysis
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Waddell, Jennifer H.; Marszalek, Jacob M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
In urban schools, along with skills for effective teaching, successful teachers must also possess values and belief systems conducive to teaching effectively in diverse settings (Becker, Kennedy, & Hundersmarck, 2003; Haberman, 2008; Metzgar & Wu, 2008). As demonstrated in CAEP standard 3, there is a critical need for EPPs to admit…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Teacher Education Programs, Student Attitudes, Interrater Reliability
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Moon, Martha; Berger, Paul – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2016
What does Indigenous student success look like in public school boards? Seven urban Indigenous educators' interview responses to this question were interpreted and reported by the lead author, a teacher and researcher of English, Irish, and Scottish heritage--a Settler Canadian. The "Connected Beads Model" is the result of these…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Personnel, Academic Achievement, Public Schools
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Skerrett, Allison – Urban Education, 2016
This article uses case study methods and theories of literacy as social practice to explore how an adolescent developed her religious identity and religious literacies in relationship with more secular identities and literacy practices across multiple social contexts. It further examines how the youth engaged her religious identity and religious…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Case Studies, Adolescent Development, Spiritual Development
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H. Bernard Hall – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the ways in which hip-hop pedagogies and literacies encouraged middle school students to explore performance poetry as a tool to "(w)right" the truth(s) about learning and living in their local and global communities. Design/methodology/approach: Collaborative self-study research…
Descriptors: Poetry, Popular Culture, Social Justice, Writing Instruction
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Fellner, Gene – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2015
In his article, "Urban special education policy and the lived experience of stigma in a high school science classroom," Chris Hale persuasively argues that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and subsequent special education policies have largely failed to serve special education students who are stigmatized by their deficit…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Special Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
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Quinn, Rand; Carl, Nicole Mittenfelner – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
Teacher professional agency refers to the ability of teachers to control their work within structural constraints. In this paper, we show how teacher activist organizations can assist in the development of professional agency. We focus on a teacher activist organization in a large urban district in the United States and identify three…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Activism, Teacher Associations, Urban Schools
Hossain, Farhana; Terwelp, Emily – MDRC, 2015
In 2008, New York City's Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) launched the Young Adult Literacy (YAL) program to improve the academic and work-readiness skills of youth who are not in school, do not have a job, and have very low literacy skills. The YAL program targets 16- to 24-year-old young adults who read at the fourth-through eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Urban Education
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Troutman, Stephanie – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2017
This article draws on focus group conversations with black female college students attending a small, liberal arts institution in Kentucky. Based primarily on group interviews and discussions, as well as observations and analysis--a theoretical domain (referred to throughout the article as "Fabulachia") emerged as a site-specific outcome…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, African American Students, College Students, Observation
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White, Meg; Brown, Corine Meredith; Viator, Martha Graham; Byrne, Laurel L.; Ricchezza, Lorraine C. – Educational Forum, 2017
To be an effective urban educator requires teachers to understand the contextual factors of students, the school, and the community, and their cumulative effects on learning. Urban teacher academies support a better understanding of urban classrooms and challenge stereotypes of the urban context. The focus of this study was to compare…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Educational Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, High School Students
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Bayhan, Sezen – Critical Studies in Education, 2017
In Turkey, the social and economic changes of the past couple of decades have facilitated a neoliberal reconstruction of the city and a concomitant reorganisation of its educational spaces. The interaction between the urban space economy and school spaces has been documented by various studies, most of which point to the interplay between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Relocation, Neighborhood Schools
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Soto, Aimee Elizabeth Hendrix – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Three teacher-researchers engage in self-study of a college writing program delivered on an urban high school campus. Through examination of their practices, from their particular standpoints bridging secondary and post-secondary education, the teachers find that the writing program repairs opportunity gaps related to the accountability regime,…
Descriptors: College Programs, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), High School Students
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Bicker, Jack – Ethics and Education, 2018
Drawing on respective ideas from within both liberal political philosophy and Frankfurt School critical theory, this paper seeks to examine claims about autonomy and empowerment made on behalf of educational policies such as teacher-led codeswitching; a policy that seeks to empower students from racially marginalised groups by facilitating their…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Minority Group Students, Critical Theory, Race
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Lincove, Jane Arnold; Barrett, Nathan; Strunk, Katharine O. – Educational Researcher, 2018
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Orleans Parish school district fired over 4,000 public school teachers as the city underwent a transition to a market-based system of charter schools. Using administrative data, we examine whether and how these teachers returned to public school employment and teaching. We estimate that school reform and…
Descriptors: Teacher Dismissal, Natural Disasters, School Districts, Public School Teachers
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