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Kolluri, Suneal – Urban Education, 2022
The Common Core State Standards were designed to prepare all students for college and careers. Using theories of cultural capital and culturally relevant pedagogy, this study of 54 college-bound, inner-city high school seniors seeks to determine how students perceive their college readiness during the implementation of the new standards. While the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Common Core State Standards, College Readiness, Cultural Capital
Wood, J. Luke; Newman, Christopher B. – Urban Education, 2017
This research focuses on factors predicting faculty-student engagement for Black male collegians. In this study, the authors investigated whether students' perceptions of racial/gender stereotypes had a moderating effect on the determinants of engagement with faculty. The sample population was derived from 16 urban community colleges located…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges, Student Surveys
Graham, Sandra; Taylor, April; Hudley, Cynthia – Urban Education, 2015
A 12-week, 32-lesson afterschool intervention was conducted with third-to fifth-grade urban African American boys classified as aggressive. Grounded in attribution theory and organized around the construct of perceived responsibility in self and others, the intervention focused on increasing both social skills and academic motivation. Participants…
Descriptors: Males, African Americans, Aggression, Intervention
Sanchez, Patricia; Salazar, Malena – Urban Education, 2012
This article examines the ways in which transnational Latino immigrants in urban communities use computer technology. Drawing from a 3-year ethnographic study, it focuses on three second-generation transnational female youth, their families, and members of their respective immigrant networks. Data were collected in both the United States and…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Ethnography, Computers, Foreign Countries
Gardner, Joby – Urban Education, 2010
This article explores how incarcerated young men talked about the future. I use theories of cultural capital and methods informed by critical discourse analysis to analyze interviews with 15 young men and a series of essays about the future written by 10 different young men. It suggests new directions for analysis and programmatic use of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Young Adults, Males, Institutionalized Persons
MacGillivray, Laurie; Ardell, Amy Lassiter; Curwen, Margaret Sauceda – Urban Education, 2010
This article addresses the question, "How do mothers and children in a homeless shelter interact with literacy?" We drew on the theoretical framework of social literacy practices in which cultural context is foregrounded. Data for this qualitative study included participant observation in one homeless shelter and interviews with one…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Mothers, Public Libraries, Cultural Context
Mitchell, Douglas E.; Batie, Michael; Mitchell, Ross E. – Urban Education, 2010
This article examines a half century of housing and school segregation data in two large California school districts. Based on a review of both the methods and the substantive data available tracking the relationship between school and housing integration, the study reported here shows that very substantial school-level integration in these two…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Segregation, Housing, Urban Areas