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Cassandra Sade Brentley – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study explores the impact of attending optional professional learning events on the critical consciousness development of Ready to Learn (RtL) mentors over the course of one program year. Ready to Learn is an out of school time math tutoring and mentoring program that seeks to address opportunity gaps in math learning for middle school…
Descriptors: Mentors, Consciousness Raising, Critical Theory, Social Justice
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Metz, Mike – Urban Education, 2021
Approaches to teaching critical language awareness are gaining traction in urban schools with culturally and linguistically complex student populations; however, what teachers need to know to enact these pedagogies is not well understood. Using a lens of pedagogical content knowledge for critical language teaching, this study examines what happens…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge Level, Critical Theory, Language Attitudes
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Han, Song – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2021
In the current climate of pursuing educational equity, the construction of educational community is a worthwhile experiment in achieving equitable development of urban and rural education. Establishing a multi-channel cooperation mechanism between urban and rural schools and giving full play to the existing high-quality educational resources are…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Urban Education, Rural Education, Educational Resources
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Larson, Joanne; Duret, Eleni; Rees, Jennifer; Anderson, Jessica – Journal of Literacy Research, 2021
This article explores how one urban high school under threat of state closure developed a multifaceted literacy program to transform the teaching and learning of literacy in a novel university/school partnership. Analyses of ethnographic and quantitative school data illustrate how the evolution of the literacy program could be understood as a…
Descriptors: High School Students, Urban Schools, Literacy Education, School Closing
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Emdin, Christopher – Educational Forum, 2017
In this article, the author describes a lens for engaging in research and practice in urban education rooted in deep cultural understandings of the concept of building bridges and the impact of cultural agnosia.
Descriptors: Urban Education, Cultural Influences, Educational Research, Educational Practices
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Kim, Jung-In; De Long, Shauna P. A.; Ortega, Mari C.; Kelly, Larissa A.; Casias, Marcelino; Dray, Barbara J. – Elementary School Journal, 2019
This study examined 10 urban middle school teachers' practices to motivate their emergent bilingual students (or English-language learners) and the ways in which their practices were associated with their positioning of their students in reading intervention classrooms. Our findings showed that teacher positioning that afforded or constrained…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Urban Schools, Urban Education, English Language Learners
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Wright, Christopher G. – Urban Education, 2019
This exploratory design experiment investigates Black male youth's participation in a science-learning environment designed to conceptualize the practice of critique as improvisational performance. The research highlights the young men's deployment of a linguistic practice, signifying, used to co-construct and enact the practice of collaborative…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Creative Activities, African American Students, Males
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Jeynes, William H. – Education and Urban Society, 2019
An extensive meta-analysis, including 52 studies, was undertaken on the relationship between character education and student achievement and behavioral outcomes. Additional analyses were done to determine whether the effects of character education differed by student grade level, locale, race, and so on. The results indicated that character…
Descriptors: Values Education, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education, Student Improvement
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Walcott, John R. – AILACTE Journal, 2019
The current narrative surrounding urban education, while incomplete, often focuses on concerns related to student achievement, failing schools, and teacher quality. This article targets teacher preparation as one response to these challenges and investigates the extent to which liberal arts colleges and universities are involved in this work. The…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Urban Teaching, Preservice Teacher Education, Liberal Arts
Melina Aurora Pinales – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Latinos comprise a significant portion of the total school enrollment in the U.S., and an increasing share of Latinos are pursuing higher education today. However, Latino students still face many educational barriers, and research has repeatedly demonstrated that Latino children lag their peers in terms of their academic achievement. In addition,…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Reading Achievement, Hispanic American Students, Instructional Innovation
Genella Matthews Spencer – ProQuest LLC, 2020
With this dissertation I present a self-narrative autoethnography to share the pedagogical practices that have been found to be successful in the academic achievement of mathematics with a specific sector of Students of Color, Black/African American students, in the urban inner-city schools. A combination of self reflected teaching experiences in…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, Educational Practices, Mathematics Achievement
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Martin, Linda E.; Mulvihill, Thalia M. – Teacher Educator, 2021
Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings is the former Kellner Family Distinguished Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She served as president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in 2005-2006. Dr. Ladson-Billings has contributed widely to the development of…
Descriptors: Interviews, College Faculty, Culturally Relevant Education, Critical Theory
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Edwards, Danielle Sanderson – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2021
Research concerning family preferences for schooling indicates that they value proximity to home as much as academic quality when choosing schools. However, preferences for proximity likely represent inability to access schools farther away from home, especially for disadvantaged students. I test whether distance and district boundaries constrain…
Descriptors: Access to Education, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Proximity
Pamela D. Tarver-Stewart – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of urban secondary math and science teachers, administrators, and district personnel regarding the factors that influence secondary math and science teachers with more than five years of teaching experience to remain in urban Title I districts. The participants were interviewed to gain their…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Science, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Roderick L. Carey – American Educational Research Journal, 2024
Black and Latinx adolescent boys from economically stratified communities face pervasive societal inequities and, therefore, deserve more responsive school supports to determine and actualize postsecondary pathways. For insights into how such students conceptualize their futures and their school's role in facilitating this process, this…
Descriptors: Males, Disadvantaged Youth, Post High School Guidance, Urban Education
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