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Download full textBurke, Christopher J. F.; Adler, Martha – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2013
This case study examines the experiences of two fifth grade teachers as they dealt with district mandates while trying to address their high-poverty urban children's learning needs. It reveals their personal struggles that led to both compliance and resistance. In this case, the act of finding the space to engage in the intellectual and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Student Needs, Elementary School Students, Poverty
Burke, Christopher J. F.; Adler, Martha – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2013
This case study examines the experiences of two fifth grade teachers as they dealt with district mandates while trying to address their high-poverty urban children's learning needs. It reveals their personal struggles that led to both compliance and resistance. In this case, the act of finding the space to engage in the intellectual and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Compliance (Psychology), Resistance (Psychology), Elementary School Teachers
Curwen, Margie Sauceda – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2011
This study explored how multi-generational, middle-class, fifth-graders from Latino families responded to classroom discussions of social issues--particularly discrimination--and draws upon sociocultural views of culture, educational theory, and sociological perspectives of immigration to provide insight into the learning experiences of one group…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Hispanic American Students, Racial Bias, Racial Discrimination
Barber, Elizabeth – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2011
For nine semesters approximately 100 third through fifth graders have come by bus from their urban impact schools (Anyon, 2005) only a few city blocks away, to the campus of an historic Black university for tutoring. Pairs of university student tutors--typically freshmen, sophomores and juniors from multiple disciplines across campus--accept…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Urban Schools, Public Schools, Service Learning
Zacher, Jessica – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2006
In this paper I examine the ways that three fifth-grade girls from different socioeconomic backgrounds formed and reformed their racial identities in a diverse urban public school. Although the girls were labeled as "White" by their parents and the school district, none identified as "White." Drawing on data from an ethnographic study of…
Descriptors: Race, Females, Human Geography, Racial Identification
Dillihunt, Monica L.; Tyler, Kenneth M. – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2006
The purpose of this study is to discern the effects of instruction type on minority students in urban schools, mathematics achievement. Two hundred thirteen third and fifth grade (136 African American and 77 Latino) students attending schools in low-income urban communities were provided mathematics instruction in one of two ways: multiple…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Multiple Intelligences, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 5
