Education
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An Exploration of the Impact of Critical Math Literacies and Alternative Schooling Spaces on the Identity Development of High School-Aged Black Males in South Los Angeles
(2009-01-01)Urban schools, for many African American students, have effectively become a space for the perpetuation of modern slavery. Large numbers of students, particularly Black males, are being funneled without choice into low-wage ... -
Prisons, Pipelines, and the President: Developing Critical Math Literacy through Participatory Action Research
(2010-04-01)Academic success, and the economic well-being it usually affords, is closely tied to math achievement. Key national indicators reveal decades of underperformance of African American males in mathematics. Scholars argue ... -
Participatory Action Research (PAR) and the Mathematics Orientations of American Indian Youth - A PowerPoint Show
(2009-01-01)This is a PowerPoint slideshow drawn from a keynote session at the South Dakota Department of Education's 6th Annual Indian Education & Dropout Prevention Summit, held in Rapid City, SD in September of 2009. The keynote ... -
Expectations of the System
(2009-10-01)Expectations of the System is a student-created film which details the findings of a participatory action research (PAR) project conducted in South Los Angeles. In the summer of 2008, a critical research team composed ... -
Community-Based Organizations and Pre-Service Teacher Education: A Case Study of 826LA
(2011-01-01)Teacher preparation programs typically depend on fieldwork experiences in classrooms to prepare pre-service teachers and fail to utilize other spaces for helpful pedagogical shaping. The potential value from participation ... -
Women in Science: A study of the socialization of high school women in science classes
(2007-01-01)People are taught to have specific ideas of what is fitting of a women. While the women's rights movement has helped society progress, there are still social influences that subtly perpetuate the stereotypical women. While ... -
A Qualitative Description of the Monolingual and Bilingual School Experience in Germany
(2004-01-01)The education of students of Turkish origin in Germany is treated in different ways in different schools in Germany; some schools help these students by educating them both in German and Turkish, others educate in German ...
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