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Seltzer, Kate – Written Communication, 2022
This article centers on Faith, a Latinx bilingual student who, because of her failure to pass a standardized exam in English language arts, had to repeat 11th-grade English. Despite this stigma of being a "repeater," during the year-long ethnographic study I conducted in her classroom, Faith proved to be an insightful and critical reader…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, English Language Learners, High School Students, Grade 11
Hawkins, B. Denise – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2005
At Coppin State University, a historically Black university, nearly 120 ninth-graders are enrolled in the Coppin Academy. The academy is one of nearly a dozen such innovative school partnerships nationwide, aiming to apply study results that suggest that African-American students may perform better in smaller, more personalized learning…
Descriptors: Scholarship Funds, Small Classes, Educational Environment, College Programs