School crime and student rights: “surprises” from a federal initiativeThe Urban Review - Tập 19 Số 4 - Trang 223-238 - 1987
Tremper, Charles R.
The National School Crime and Student Misbehavior Project, sponsored by the federal Departments of Justice and Education, introduced law enforcement and community development techniques in three urban school districts. Contrary to the project sponsors' assumptions that schools were crime-ridden and that due process requirements were preventing school administrators from responding effectively to c...... hiện toàn bộ
A Grounded Model of How Educators Earn Students’ Trust in a High Performing U.S. Urban High SchoolThe Urban Review - Tập 54 - Trang 703-732 - 2022
Peter Demerath, Sara Kemper, Eskender Yousuf, Bodunrin Banwo
This article presents a grounded model of how educators earn students’ trust in a high performing U.S. urban high school. This long-term anthropological project set out to understand the beliefs and practices of experienced teachers and staff members nominated by students as helping them feel like they belonged in school. Analysis of study data revealed a process of mutual discernment whereby adul...... hiện toàn bộ
A qualitative critique of teacher labor market studiesThe Urban Review - Tập 17 - Trang 98-110 - 1985
Barnett Berry, George W. Noblit, R. Dwight Hare
Qualitative studies of the teacher labor market suggest that problems and remedies generated by quantitative research fail to capture the most dynamic variables which are affecting the supply and demand of public school teachers. For example, quantitative research has not accounted for (1) the continual exiting and reentering of urban teachers, (2) the considerable bifurcation between urban and ru...... hiện toàn bộ
Inspection Judgements on Urban Schools: A Case for the DefenceThe Urban Review - Tập 46 - Trang 891-903 - 2014
Julian Gorton, Melanie Williams, Terry Wrigley
This article is co-authored by two urban school Heads in the north of England with the support of an academic partner. The article begins with the phenomenon of official judgements of urban schools, made by the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills, a semi-privatised and supposedly independent arm of government. The discussion places in question its work in raising achi...... hiện toàn bộ