Education Faculty Scholarship
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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 ...