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Direct linkScales, Peter C.; Foster, Karen C; Mannes, Marc; Horst, Megan A; Pinto, Kristina C; Rutherford, Audra – Urban Education, 2005
This article reports the connections among urban students' school-business partnership experiences, developmental assets or strengths they report in their lives, and positive developmental outcomes. Surveys were completed by 429 9th-to 12th-grade Hispanic and African American students, mostly low income in an inner-city high school, and 76…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Student Motivation, Low Income Groups, African American Students
Brown, Lionel – Urban Education, 2004
Alarming numbers of students, particularly minority students, are being suspended and expelled from our nation's schools. The surface issue is discipline; however, the underlying issues are literacy and barriers to academic success. To address these issues, a large urban district opened a new school for students who were not succeeding in…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, School Community Programs, Discipline Problems, Academic Achievement
Rueda, Robert; Monzo, Lilia D.; Higareda, Ignacio – Urban Education, 2004
This article examines the sociocultural scaffolding practices of 24 Latino paraeducators and 8 former Latino paraeducators (who had recently become teachers) as they worked with Latino students in two large urban schools. Instances were observed in which participants used important funds of knowledge in their interactions with students during…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Hispanic Americans, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Minority Group Teachers
Otoya-Knapp, Karina – Urban Education, 2004
Based on a yearlong critical inquiry project in a central Los Angeles high school, the author discusses the implications of engaging students in dialogue and critique about their experiences with race. The students' voices, through participant observation field notes and their own writing, tell stories of struggle and newfound understandings about…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Educational Environment, High School Students, Equal Education
Guerrero, Michael D. – Urban Education, 2004
This article examines the primary assumption underlying the recent passage of propositions aimed at meeting the need of English language learners (ELLs). The assumption is that English language learners normally need only one year of intensive structured English immersion to learn English well enough to be academically successful in an all-English…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Academic Discourse, English (Second Language), State Legislation
Thompson, Carolyn J. – Urban Education, 2004
Social capital theory is used as a lens for examining the culture of an African American college student-led movement during the events of the San Francisco State College strike that began in 1968. Results reveal strong ties with the African American community as well as with a number of on- and off-campus networks. An in-depth look at the ties…
Descriptors: African American Community, State Colleges, Social Capital, Activism
