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Showing 1 to 20 of 177 for “"urban education"”.
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Theme & Variations: a content analysis of syllabi in introduction to urban education courses
This qualitative study examines the teaching of urban education in introductory and foundational college courses. The research positions course syllabi as ubiquitous public documents that socialize students into discourse communities, and is framed within theories of social constructivism. An …
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African American English in Urban Education: A Multimethodological Approach to Understanding Classroom Discourse Strategies
… between 'home English' and 'school English' for urban students have been addressed for decades by a number of scholars in the fields of linguistics, education, and sociology (Baratz 1969, Baugh 1995, Charity et al 2004, Alim 2009, Edwards 2010). Those students who speak prestige varieties of …
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Effective teacher education: from student-teacher candidates to novice teachers prepared for urban education
… study was to examine to what extent a teacher education program prepares teacher candidates to be effective urban educators who are reflective, innovative, and committed to diversity based on the perceptions and insight from students. As the nation grapples with an extreme range of outputs from …
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When Urban Education Meets Community Activism: A Case of Student Empowerment in New Orleans
This is an ethnographic study of urban education and community development in the city of New Orleans. In New Orleans, as in all American cities, the public schools are at the center of local politics and the policies that affect community life. Institutions of public education have come under fire …
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Exploring the principal perspective on teacher attrition in urban education : a single case study.
Teachers at all educational levels and disciplines are leaving the profession at a rapid rate across the United States with numbers increasing since the COVID-19 pandemic. Retention tools and strategies are critical to the success of a school and school district. The purpose of this single case …
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African American English in urban education: a multimethodological approach to understanding classroom discourse strategies
… between “home English” and “school English” for urban students have been addressed for decades by a number of scholars in the fields of linguistics, education, and sociology (Baratz 1969, Baugh 1995, Charity et al 2004, Alim 2009, Edwards 2010). Those students who speak prestige varieties of …
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Segregation, Transformation, and Urban Education: A History of Attaining Racial Equity in the Hickman Mills C-1 School District
… chapters present an analysis of the history of education and schooling in the greater Kansas City metropolitan community from 1902 to 2014; the political, social, and economic climate in the Hickman Mills C-1 School District and community; and the history of the development and implementation of …
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Reconstructing Resilience: Including African -American Female Students in Educational Resiliency Research
Understanding that educational resilience is a process that is contextually bound, the study also includes a social, political, and economic historical analysis of the city where the study took place. Also, very important to this study is that the researcher introduces a new theoretical and …
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Jright-sizing [sic] as an iterative process for the Kansas City, Missouri school district
… OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Urban education requires leadership and implementation as key drivers of change. However, educational leaders often find themselves at odds with what is best for children and adult agendas. As complicated as urban education is, one aspect is …
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Investing in Education: Venture Philanthropy and the Marketized Practice of Educational Improvement
… philanthropists interested in fixing problems in urban education look to business practices and market-based reforms. Venture Philanthropy (VP), draws its practices directly from the financial sector, using strategic investment to increase the capacity and achievement of funded organizations and …
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Student voice: a qualitative case study of teachers' conceptions in a New Jersey urban high school
… 2013). The exclusion of student voice in urban education raises the question about what opportunity exists for students to express their opinions on matters that affect them in schools. Urban education has a culture that is ripped apart by chronic absenteeism, low graduation rates, high …
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Planning for school choice
The image of the picturesque urban schoolhouse is increasingly becoming a thing of the past. City schools were viewed with fear or disdain. The urban school's image shifted to an unruly coop for 'dangerous' unteachable students. This stark juxtaposition reflects the gradual transition in the urban …
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Understanding The Effectiveness of Preparation Programs For Black Male School Leaders
… pursue and maintain principalship, especially in urban K-12 school districts. A component of this problem may be the nature and content of administrator preparation programs, which may not adequately prepare male administrators of color to be effective educational leaders for urban education. …
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Teacher Perceptions Regarding Teacher Retention in an Urban Middle School: What School Leaders Need to Know
… new terminology in public school districts is “urban education” which breeds an entirely new scope of needs for public urban school success. Teachers who work in urban schools with large numbers of low socio-economic minority students feel less satisfied and are more likely to turn over; meaning …
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An Exploration of The Education Inequity of Rural-To-Urban Migrant Students in Nanjing, China
… decades, China’s rapid economic development and urban construction have been accompanied by the world’s most significant internal population movement. Hundreds of thousands of internal migrants migrated to cities in search of better work and educational opportunities. Due to the restrictions from …
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On the Shores of Education: Urban Bodies, Architectural Repetitions, and the Mythic Space of End Times
… connection between philosophies and practices of education and sacrificial journeys of descent and emergence. This thematic work of repetition, birth and death, is not so much knowable as it is the privileged way in which we enact and recognize knowing itself. Education, as a spatial practice and …
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The Adults Talk Too Much : Interviews With Low-Income Urban Middle School Girls
… academic experiences of low-income girls in an urban middle school, and to understand, from the girls' perspectives, how to improve urban education for their benefit. Study participants included seven girls who were interviewed three times toward the end of their eighth grade year. In addition …
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The Soul of A School: An Ethnographic Study of College-Going Culture at an Urban High School
… The purpose of this study is to examine an urban, public high school's culture in the southeast region of the United States with a high population of African Americans and students living in poverty. The college- going culture theory proposed by McClafferty, McDonough and Nunez (2002) and …
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