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Reed, Beatrice Szczepek – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2010
In their analysis of a corpus of classroom interactions in an inner city high school, Roth and Tobin describe how teachers and students accomplish interactional alignment by prosodically matching each other's turns. Prosodic matching, and specific prosodic patterns are interpreted as signs of, and contributions to successful interactional outcomes…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Urban Areas, Urban Education, Suprasegmentals
DeMinico, Dana – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The following study sought to add to the body of literature on effective charter school models and the role universities play in urban school reform by closely examining one urban elementary university charter school partnership through the eyes of its key participants and in relation to the unique political and social contexts in which it was…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Case Studies
Watson, Dyan – Rethinking Schools, 2011
Ethnic, inner city, urban. What do these terms mean in education? The author is a teacher educator who studies how people use language to talk about race. One word that she has examined over the past five years is "urban". A quick look in the dictionary, and there is no surprise: Urban means related to the city, characteristic of a city or city…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Areas, Urban Education, Sociolinguistics
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Milligan, Tonya; Howley, Craig – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2015
This study explores how 10 principals in mostly-Black U.S. urban elementary schools staffed by mostly-White faculty understood and experienced the manifestations of racial differences. Narrative inquiry with nearly 700 pages of transcript data yielded three themes: (1) gradients of color-conscious leadership, (2) principals as moral agents, and…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Urban Schools, Elementary Schools, Racial Segregation
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Cosner, Shelby; Tozer, Steve; Zavitkovsky, Paul; Whalen, Samuel P. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2015
In 2013, the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) in its inaugural "Exemplary Educational Leadership Preparation" (EELP) program competition recognized University of Illinois at Chicago's (UIC) Doctorate in Urban Education Leadership as one of two EELP programs in the United States. This article provides information…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Educational Administration, Program Descriptions, Program Design
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Biag, Manuelito – Urban Education, 2016
Few studies have investigated school connectedness from the perspectives of the adults working in the school. Using qualitative methods, the present study examined three dimensions of school connectedness in one urban, low-income middle school. Analyses revealed that school personnel cared for students' needs, sometimes at the expense of holding…
Descriptors: Low Income, Student Needs, Academic Standards, Family School Relationship
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Urbach, Jennifer – Education and Urban Society, 2012
Literacy is a socially constructed ideology (Barton & Hamilton, 1998; Street, 1995). Current representations reduce literacy to standards, skill testing, and the five components of reading (NICHD, 2000). This view of literacy discounts the knowledge and skills of many students. This article examines the oral story of Aisha, an African American…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Emergent Literacy, Phenomenology, Culturally Relevant Education
Vazquez, Dania – Voices in Urban Education, 2013
The Summer 2013 issue of "Voices in Urban Education" presents an interview with Dania Vazquez, founding principal of the Margarita Muñiz Academy, a Boston public high school offering dual-language education in Spanish and English. The first dual-language high school in Massachusetts, this Innovation School opened in the fall of 2012 with…
Descriptors: High School Students, Urban Education, Interviews, Language of Instruction
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Lazar, Althier – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2013
Teaching for social justice means understanding students and advocating for them. These dispositions are especially critical for those who teach in urban communities where low-resourced schools and deficit perspectives toward students prevail. While many teacher education programs claim to prepare teachers for social justice (Zeichner in…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Urban Education, Urban Schools, Teacher Characteristics
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Hands, Catherine – Teaching Education, 2013
Parent engagement plays an essential role in student achievement and well-being, but not all families are able to participate in their children's education. This article focuses on strategies for reaching and supporting parents who face challenges to engagement such as poverty and cultural diversity. Five district-level parent engagement projects…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Well Being, Foreign Countries, Schools of Education
Feith, David – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2013
This policy brief is the third in a series of in-depth case studies exploring how top-performing charter schools have incorporated civic learning in their school curriculum and school culture. The UNO Charter School Network includes 13 schools serving some 6,500 students across Chicago. Located in predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods, the…
Descriptors: School Culture, Charter Schools, Field Trips, Standardized Tests
Curl, Heather D. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Social mobility is often viewed as a way to alleviate poverty and create equality; it represents the basis upon which the United States is viewed as a meritocratic nation of opportunity. Missing from this persistent narrative, however, is analysis of the actual experience of social mobility. This qualitative study explores the narratives of…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Social Mobility
Stairs, Andrea J.; Donnell, Kelly A.; Dunn, Alyssa Hadley – SAGE Publications (CA), 2011
"Urban Teaching in America: Theory, Research, and Practice in K-12 Classrooms" is a brief yet comprehensive overview of urban teaching. Undergraduate and graduate students who are new to the urban context will develop a deeper understanding of the urban teaching environment and the challenges and opportunities they can expect to face while…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Urban Education
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Cammarota, Julio – Urban Education, 2011
This article reviews the social justice youth development (SJYD) model conceptualized to facilitate and enhance urban youth awareness of their personal potential, community responsibility, and broader humanity. The SJYD requires the healing of youth identities by involving them in social justice activities that counter oppressive conditions…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Social Justice, Models, Community Responsibility
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Ives, Denise – Journal of Literacy Research, 2011
Many of the literacies students possess go unnoticed or untapped in schools. In some cases, these hidden literacies are not seen or valued because they are not viewed as appropriate or relevant in relation to officially sanctioned, school-based literacies. The literature has shown that these hidden literacies are indeed valuable and relevant and…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Literacy, Academic Ability, Figurative Language
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