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Zyrashae Smith-Onyewu; Marc L. Stein; Juan B. Cortes; Paula Kim-Christian; Nathaniel Dewey – Research in Higher Education, 2025
Community colleges were established as affordable postsecondary education opportunities for all residents within their local areas. Typical measures of access to postsecondary institutions use binary indicators based on the presence of institutions within geographic areas or straight-line distance between student residences and college locations…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Transportation, Public Sector, Urban Schools
Andrew Messer-Hinton – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined teachers' perceptions regarding a pay-for-performance model in one large urban Texas school district, implementing pay-for-performance. The district model investigated has been implemented for nine years, replacing the traditional salary schedule with an entirely performance-based system. For the quantitative portion of this…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Merit Pay, Public School Teachers
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Loraine D. Cook – Education and Urban Society, 2024
This study examined stakeholders' views on parental involvement in students' school experiences at Eagle's Remedial School (a pseudonym). The school system has a diverse group of students, and stakeholders (such as teachers, parents, and principals) have varied parental involvement perceptions. The interactions between parents and other…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Parent Participation, Foreign Countries, Remedial Instruction
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Mordechay, Kfir; Ayscue, Jennifer B. – Education and Urban Society, 2024
College-educated White households have increasingly opted to live in central urban neighborhoods, transforming many parts of the urban core. While there is emerging evidence that schools may play a key part in this process, little is known about the extent of racial contract between children of gentrifier households and original residents. This…
Descriptors: Diversity, Racial Composition, Neighborhoods, Change
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Jemimah Young; John Williams III; Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán; Marlon James; Quinita Ogletree; Monica Neshyba; Cristina Worely – Urban Education, 2025
In the seminal work "But What Is Urban Education?" from 2012, Richard Milner proffered a typology to better represent urban spaces as conceptions of urbanization's evolution. The typology consists of three descriptors, to which each highlights the manner in which population density influences the availability of resources to support…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Content Analysis, Urban Education, Urban Areas
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Abiola Farinde-Wu; Melissa Winchell; Michael Baulier; Amy L. Cook – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
Systemic institutional racism in schools engenders different and difficult educational experiences for students of Color. Relatedly, there is an enduring divide between home and school that often influences school curricula, teachers' pedagogies, and students' educational progress. Considering this preclusion to learning, this case study gleans…
Descriptors: Racism, Social Justice, Curriculum Development, Elementary Schools
Denise Alexander – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative, descriptive study was to explore how school administrators described their understanding of the decision-making process in the allocation of funds to urban elementary schools in New York. Twelve participants took part in online questionnaires followed by Zoom interviews. A convenience sample of principals were…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Resource Allocation, Principals, Elementary Schools
Nancy Diab Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This phenomenological study investigated the perceptions of Arizona school superintendents in their capacity as instructional leaders. The study bridges the gap in comprehending the experiences and perspectives of superintendents in Arizona schools. The study's findings identified the beliefs in teaching and learning, the challenges and barriers…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Instructional Leadership, Suburban Schools, Urban Schools
Ofem, Brandon; Phillips, Joan M.; Lauer, Dan; Palmer, John C. – Metropolitan Universities, 2023
Co-location tools of urban economic development, such as accelerators and incubators, can facilitate entrepreneurship. Of these tools, accelerators have proliferated in number and variety over the past couple of decades. However, growing evidence suggests that these programs are not equally effective, varying in form and function with disparate…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Research Universities, Urban Schools, College Role
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Raquel M. Rall – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
The goal of this article is to enhance understanding and appreciation of the current and potential role of trustees in urban community colleges. In working to make sure students are successful, trustees face numerous challenges in implementing high-impact policies and practices that center student success. This article establishes a node…
Descriptors: Trustees, Role, Urban Schools, Community Colleges
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Sueanne E. McKinney; Deana J. Ford; Cynthia Tomovic – Education and Urban Society, 2024
A qualitative content analysis was employed to examine what factors contributed to effective teachers' selection and retention in urban high poverty schools. First, the Star Teacher Interview was used to identify effective urban educators. Then, verbal interviews were conducted with star subjects to determine factors that contributed to their…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Urban Schools
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Yiting Chu; Weijia Wang – Urban Education, 2024
Urban teacher residency (UTR) has been promoted as a promising model to prepare teachers for urban schools. In this review, we analyzed 56 peer-reviewed, empirical journal articles on UTRs published between 2010 and 2020, following the PRISMA guidelines. While this literature suggested UTRs' potentials to recruiting and retaining diverse urban…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Urban Schools, Teacher Education, Experiential Learning
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Jeynes, William H. – Urban Education, 2024
This paper shares the results of a meta-analysis on the parental-expectations component of parental involvement and its relationship with the student outcomes of urban students. Special attention is paid to parental expectations, because in many past studies, parental expectations has been the most salient component of parental involvement. This…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Expectation, Parent Participation, Parent Attitudes
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Remy Stewart; Jerel M. Ezell – Urban Education, 2024
A popular alternative disciplinary framework from zero-tolerance school policies is restorative justice, which refers to a set of ideologies and practices that emphasize healing relationships in lieu of community exclusion. This work investigates the differences between ideological support for restorative approaches compared to program…
Descriptors: Restorative Practices, Urban Schools, High Schools, Attitudes
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Desiree Falzon; Elisabeth Conrad – Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education, 2024
Nature-based learning within the primary school curriculum offers numerous potential benefits. However, there is a lack of clarity about how school grounds can be designed to enable effective nature-based learning. There is also little knowledge of how specific features within green school grounds contribute to specific desirable outcomes, such as…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Outdoor Education, Curriculum Development, Facility Planning
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