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Saltmarsh, Jason E. – Education and Urban Society, 2023
Parental access to useful information about schools continues to be a structural barrier that limits the equity potential of school choice programs. While "information interventions" or simplified and readable knowledge resources show promise for counteracting information disparities between families, this line of research has provided…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Partnerships in Education, School Choice, Parent Participation
Lac, Van T.; Diaz, Christina – Education and Urban Society, 2023
This study examines the experiences of three aspiring Latina school leaders in a principal preparation program with a social justice emphasis. Employing theoretical perspectives grounded in a community-based educational leadership framework and transformational resistance theory, this study documents how coursework informed the perspectives of…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Education, Instructional Leadership, Disadvantaged
Budhai, Stephanie Smith; Lewis Grant, Kristine S. – Education and Urban Society, 2023
While parent involvement has been shown to have positive academic outcomes for their children, for structural changes to be made, parents have to go from being active to taking on a more activist role, thus "stoking the flame" of the norm. Parent advocacy and empowerment groups play a vital role in the transformation of parent activists,…
Descriptors: African Americans, Parent Participation, Empowerment, Cultural Capital
Bendixen, Lisa D.; Plachowski, Tara; Olafson, Lori – Education and Urban Society, 2023
This study seeks to critically examine perceptions of urban school climate from a predominantly white teacher workforce and discuss the role that white identity, as the Dominant culture, plays in maintaining the status quo of racialized school climate. Participants included 145 teachers from a large southwestern urban setting. Teachers'…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Urban Schools, Educational Environment, Racism
Bu, Qingyu; Mendenhall, Ruby – Education and Urban Society, 2022
The public school system in U.S. has changed dramatically over the past few decades. Institutionally, neo-liberal reform has created a new educational apparatus known as charter schools. As they admit students without school boundaries, these schools promise to offer great opportunities for disadvantaged students. The enrollment in charter schools…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, African American Students, Case Studies, Neoliberalism
Seeger, Chris; Parsons, Seth; View, Jenice L. – Education and Urban Society, 2022
This study documented the curricular and pedagogical adaptations of equity-centered teachers in high-poverty secondary schools in the Washington, DC-metro region. The participating teachers provided survey data, audio-recorded interviews, and curricular artifacts to describe adaptations made within unique classroom environments. Thematic analysis…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Low Income Students, Disadvantaged Schools, Equal Education
Freire, Juan A. – Education and Urban Society, 2021
Literature is limited demonstrating how some in-service teachers have developed sociopolitical consciousness and why they commit to social justice. Drawing on interviews, email correspondence, and Facebook postings collected throughout a school year, this article shows the life experiences of one white dual language educator who developed…
Descriptors: White Teachers, Language Teachers, Consciousness Raising, Social Justice
Farley, Amy N. – Education and Urban Society, 2021
States have increasingly used ballot initiatives to legislate education policy in recent years, although the consequences for educational equity and justice have been underexamined. This article investigates the extent to which ballot initiatives disproportionately affect traditionally minoritized students, with particular attention to two…
Descriptors: Democracy, Politics of Education, Equal Education, Educational Policy
Kressler, Benikia; Cavendish, Wendy – Education and Urban Society, 2020
Response to intervention (RtI) is touted as an equity-focused provision of special education policy that holds promise for reducing overrepresentation and providing academic opportunities for culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students. However, teachers working to implement RtI have encountered complex challenges that stifle equitable…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Response to Intervention, Evidence Based Practice
Robert, Catherine; Okilwa, Nathern S. A. – Education and Urban Society, 2019
In 2011, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) conducted a compliance review of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to examine the district's provision of resources and opportunities to schools with predominantly African American students as compared with schools with predominantly White students. The purpose of this study is to examine the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Compliance (Legal), African American Students
Woulfin, Sarah L.; Weiner, Jennie – Education and Urban Society, 2019
Principals are positioned at the center of school improvement. In the United States, current turnaround reforms target the principalship as a key lever for change. This article uses institutional theory to explore the logics of turnaround leadership that steer principals and their work. Specifically, we draw on qualitative interview data from a…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Principals, Capacity Building, Instructional Leadership
Ataç, Ela – Education and Urban Society, 2019
As it has been realized that education is a key to a long-term economic growth and to reducing social and economic disadvantages, educational inequality and its reflections in the geography have become some of the major issues in many countries. Turkey is in many ways a good example to analyze the relations between class, education, and regional…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Equal Education, Socioeconomic Background, Foreign Countries
Mocombe, Paul C. – Education and Urban Society, 2018
In Afrocentric circles in the United States, ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) scientist Imhotep is considered the Black father of medicine. In this article, I use his name in the title as an allusion to highlight the lack of Black males matriculating in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs or fields in the United States. The…
Descriptors: African Americans, Males, STEM Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Latimore, T. Lorraine; Peguero, Anthony A.; Popp, Ann Marie; Shekarkhar, Zahra; Koo, Dixie J. – Education and Urban Society, 2018
School-based discipline can negatively shape the educational outcomes of students, particularly for racial and ethnic minorities. Because racial and ethnic minority youth are at risk for educational failure and marginalized within schools, academic and sport extracurricular activities are often presented as a means to ameliorate educational risk…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Discipline
Mollaeva, Elza Alipasha – Education and Urban Society, 2018
Gender stereotypes are common among students of both sexes and among the teachers and students' family environment. In addition to communication processes, they are manifested in the phenomenon of gender-based division of learning and the hidden curriculum. In developing countries, the problem of access to higher education is also unsolved, not…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Females, Higher Education, Access to Education