Urban Education
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Examining Transformational Resistance Through a Critical Race and Latcrit Theory Framework Using critical race theory and Latina/Latino critical race theory as a framework, this article utilizes the methods of qualitative inquiry and counterstorytelling to examine the construct of student resistance. The authors use two events in Chicana/Chicano student history—the 1968 East Los Angeles school walkouts and the 1993 UCLA student strike for Chicana and Chicano studies. Using thes... ...
Tập 36 Số 3 - Trang 308-342 - 2001
A Meta-Analysis of the Relation of Parental Involvement to Urban Elementary School Student Academic Achievement This meta-analysis of 41 studies examines the relationship between parental involvement and the academic achievement of urban elementary school children. Analyses determined the effect sizes for parental involvement overall and subcategories of involvement. Results indicate a significant relationship between parental involvement overall and academic achievement. Parental involvement, as a... ...
Tập 40 Số 3 - Trang 237-269 - 2005
Overrepresentation of African American Students in Exclusionary Discipline The Role of School Policy The overrepresentation of ethnic minority students, particularly African American males, in the exclusionary discipline consequences of suspension and expulsion has been consistently documented during the past three decades. Children of poverty and those with academic problems are also overrepresented in such discipline consequences. Sadly, a direct link between these exclusionary discipl... ...
Tập 42 Số 6 - Trang 536-559 - 2007
Future Time Perspective, Hope, and Ethnic Identity Among African American Adolescents This study examines the relationship of academic achievement to future time perspective (FTP), hope, and ethnic identity among low-income, rural and urban African American adolescents ( N = 661). Findings indicate that adolescents who are oriented toward the future, determined to reach their goals (hope), and interested in and have a strong sense of belonging to their ethnic group tend to... ...
Tập 43 Số 3 - Trang 347-360 - 2008
Preservice Teachers' Attitudes Toward Teaching African American Students Data were collected on a total of 415 students enrolled in teacher education programs at six universities. This study consisted of data collected from three subsamples based on the type of institution participants attended. Group 1 consisted of preservice teachers from a public, predominantly White university; the university had no specific requirements related to teaching culturally dive... ...
Tập 38 Số 6 - Trang 640-654 - 2003
Perspectives of Rural Prospective Teachers toward Teaching in Urban Schools Educational inequity in urban schools is due in part to an inability to attract and retain fully educated and experienced teachers. According to data gathered in a study of rural teacher candidates, they have little knowledge or experience about teaching in urban schools. Their information comes primarily from secondary sources rather than from direct experiences. Although they lack both ... ...
Tập 30 Số 3 - Trang 290-305 - 1995
Latino Immigrant Youth Living in a Nontraditional Migration City Latino immigrant children represent the fastest-growing population in the United States and families are frequently residing outside of the traditional migration destinations. These cities lack the infrastructure and resources to provide culturally relevant services and bilingual education that supports these youth. Following a social-ecological approach that attends to the multiple conte... ...
Tập 52 Số 3 - Trang 399-426 - 2017
“I had (my dreams) on hold, I had to …”: Mexican Descent Youth Discuss Factors That Lead to Leaving High School Despite Latinx students having the second highest rates of dropouts compared with other racial/ethnic groups, few studies qualitatively examine how Latinx youth view the academic and family contexts of leaving school. In this study, 16 Mexican descent youth from low-income backgrounds discussed why they felt pushed out of high school in focus groups. Grounded theory analysis revealed that... ...
Tập 58 Số 8 - Trang 1603-1628 - 2023