Education Faculty Scholarship

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

Terry, Clarence L. (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

Terry, Clarence L. (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

Terry, Clarence L. (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

Terry, Clarence L. (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 ...