Black families and White families are affected by autism in different ways. Little scholarship acknowledges these differences, especially those communicated by Black fathers of students with autism. In this article, I share an evocative autoethnography which highlights how my cultural, familial, and occupational identities intersect and confound…

This study examined the effectiveness of Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction (FORI) on improving reading fluency for an ethnically diverse sample of second-grade students. FORI incorporates the repeated reading of a grade-level text over the course of an academic week. This approach to reading uses scaffolding by expert readers. Results indicate…

A study of nearly 30 urban elementary schools indicates that school composition (including race and socioeconomic background, school social structure, and certain social climate variables) explains more than 83 percent of between-school variance in reading achievement and 65 percent in mathematics achievement. (Author/GC)

Describes an approach to school improvement designed by the New Jersey Education Association's Urban Education Committee. The program combines a school diagnosis based on effective schools research with teacher participation in the planning and implementation of new policies, programs, and procedures. (GC)

Reviews the college career of Paul Robeson, arguing that he, demonstrating that he was not just equal to, but in fact superior to the vast majority of whites, athletically and academically, attacked the prevailing myth of white superiority, and singlehandedly demonstrated the absurdity of the belief in black inferiority. (Author/JM)

Focusing, as educational change agent, on three examples: the Philadelphia Parkway Program, the Camden Educational Development Program, and the Brandywine Educational Park in Wilmington, Delaware. (JM)

Investigated factors predicting districts' abilities to generate cross-sector support for reforms, using New Jersey's 1998 Supreme Court decision mandating the implementation of comprehensive reforms in its 30 poorest districts and exploring the extent to which community support impacted willingness to embrace reforms and perceptions of resource…