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Small Schools and Urban Youth

Author : Gilberto Q. Conchas
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1452294097
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Small Schools and Urban Youth written by Gilberto Q. Conchas and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2007-08-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Finally, educators leading the movement to smaller high schools have a resource they can draw upon for guidance and direction. This book offers clear, practical advice on how to create small schools that are effective in meeting student needs." —Pedro Noguera, Professor New York University "Relevant, individualized, and an insightful read. This book will be useful for any school system working to develop small learning communities." —Nancy Betler, Teacher Mentor Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, NC Learn about big educational results in smaller schools! Educators are increasingly turning to small learning communities, which have proven to be highly effective in facilitating academic engagement and achievement, particularly among low-income urban students. This in-depth sociological study reveals the unique aspects of this movement and: Examines the structural and cultural features of small learning communities and small schools in two major urban cities Highlights students′ perspectives on school culture, personalization, and student involvement Offers timely suggestions to benefit students at all levels and in every educational setting Based on original research, this text offers school leaders and policy makers a deeper understanding of the broad, positive impact of small school reform.

Parents and Schools Together

Author : Kelly Wachel
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1475808534
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Parents and Schools Together written by Kelly Wachel and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents and Schools Together shows administrators, teachers, and parents how to work together to produce high achieving students in urban school districts. We all know that in this fast-paced world of standards and commitments, it’s easy to forget what schools and parents are all about. There are things that schools can do to show parents the way to raise successful students. Parents have to help in order for schools to be high performing. Schools, especially schools of poverty and low achievement, have to have parent help if they are going to make it. Parents can’t use the excuse that they don’t know what to do or I’m not going to do that anymore. When schools enlist the help of parents, schools can begin to harness the full effect of all adults tag teaming together to raise students up to the levels they are capable of. Parents and School Together shows that it’s not just the school’s job to raise kids and it’s not just the parent’s job to raise kids. It takes both working together to raise successful students and kids.

Creating New Small Schools for Urban Youth

Author : Vilicia Cade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Creating New Small Schools for Urban Youth written by Vilicia Cade and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussions about the ways of improving high schools have frequently considered school size and many "new" schools reduce the size to personalize the school experience and produce more positive student outcomes. Interest in designing new small schools has increased. Embedded in many of the small school design initiatives is the belief that new school design must be a collaborative effort of educators, parents, students, and community organizations. However, both research and experience within and across public and private sectors document numerous challenges in designing, implementing, and sustaining inter-organizational initiatives. Cross-sector coordination has resource allocation, leadership, logistical and operational challenges and dilemmas that affect and are affected by levels of autonomy and adaptability within each agency that is part of the joint venture. The purpose of this study was to describe what happens in the initial phases of the design of small schools with particular attention to the cross-sector, community-based interagency processes throughout a 9-month initial design phase. A framework focused on capacity building in restructuring schools and responding to high-need communities developed by Natriello, McDill, and Pallas (1990) established a foundation for this study. This qualitative study incorporated data generation and analytic strategies that are sensitive to individual and interactive constructions of meaning. Analyses of documents and interviews with members of five design teams in one urban school district were the primary activities for generating data about the early experiences of the design teams. Interviews clarified the challenges and the potential of inter-organizational processes in the design of new school design. Cross-case analyses revealed differences across the teams in the reasons for individual involvement, design team formation, staffing decisions, student recruitment, and experiences establishing and sustaining community connections and meaningful partnerships.

Expanding College Access for Urban Youth

Author : Tyrone C. Howard
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807757640
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Expanding College Access for Urban Youth written by Tyrone C. Howard and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing provided

Expanding College Access for Urban Youth

Author : Tyrone C. Howard
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807774766
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Expanding College Access for Urban Youth written by Tyrone C. Howard and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book demonstrates why there needs to be a more thoughtful and collaborative effort on the part of K–12 schools, as well as institutions of higher education, to provide better college access to students from low-income communities. Building on a 10-year case study of a successful school-university partnership, the authors examine the supports, mentoring, and resources needed to transform the college opportunities and life chances for under-represented urban youth. Featuring first-hand accounts from student participants, the book documents how the model provided college access to some of the most selective and prestigious universities across the nation. Because this partnership situates college access within a social justice framework, it is one of the more unique programs in the country. “Few social problems are of more pressing importance than the challenge of increasing access to higher education. Howard, Tunstall, and Flennaugh carefully outline those problems and give us our marching orders. Historical. Empirical. Well-written. Thoughtful. Provocative. This book is useful for all of us concerned about access and equity in education.” —William G. Tierney, professor & co-director, Pullias Center for Higher Education, University of Southern California “This book represents a moral and ethical call to any of us who believe in an educational pipeline for liberty, humanity, possibility, and justice for all—everyday!” —H. Richard Milner IV, Helen Faison Professor of Urban Education, University of Pittsburgh Contributors: Irene Atkins, Bree Blades, Jon Carroll, Whitney Gouche, Tr’Vel Lyons, Justyn Patterson, Jerry Morrison, Michelle Smith, Ashley V. Williams

The Color of Success

Author : Gilberto Q. Conchas
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9781441640666
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Color of Success written by Gilberto Q. Conchas and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the experiences of Black, Latino, and Vietnarnese urban high school students, the author provides a revealing comparative analysis that offers insight into how schools can provide opportunities and safe learning environments where youth acquire real goals, expectations, and tangible pathways for success.

Rural and Urban Youth Programs

Author : Kenneth Backman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Rural and Urban Youth Programs written by Kenneth Backman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

EBOOK: Urban Youth And Schooling

Author : Louise Archer
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335239048
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book EBOOK: Urban Youth And Schooling written by Louise Archer and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2010-05-16 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we understand the educational disengagement of urban, working-class young people? What role do schools and education policies play in these young people’s difficult relationships with education? How might schools help to support and engage urban youth? This book critically engages with contemporary notions of 'at risk' youth. It explores the complexity of urban young people's relationships with education and schooling and discusses strategies for addressing these issues. Drawing on a two year study of urban 14-16 year olds, educational professionals and parents, the book focuses in depth on the views and experiences of ethnically diverse young Londoners who had been identified by their schools as 'at risk of dropping out of education' and as 'unlikely to progress into post-16 education'. It provides an informative and accessible overview of the key issues, debates and theoretical frameworks. It is important reading for school leaders, teachers and learning support assistants as well as trainee teachers and educational researchers.

A Simple Justice

Author : William Ayers
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807739624
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book A Simple Justice written by William Ayers and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by major players in the small schools movement, this collection of essays points to the ways school restructuring strategies connect to the ongoing pursuit of social justice. The editors bring together writers who are both educators and advocates for youth and who think changing schools can help change the world. Building bridges to their fellow educators, these essayists make powerful arguments in favour of smaller school size as an achievable reform goal.

Education, 4-H and Low Socioeconomic Urban Youth

Author : Richard E. Bitterman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (778 download)

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Download or read book Education, 4-H and Low Socioeconomic Urban Youth written by Richard E. Bitterman and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Place to Call Home

Author : Barton Jay Hirsch
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807745465
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book A Place to Call Home written by Barton Jay Hirsch and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the political spectrum, there is enormous interest in how local community organizations can help raise children who are growing up in poverty. This timely book examines the processes and outcomes at six inner-city Boys & Girls Clubs - one of the leading youth development organizations in the country. Featuring critical analysis and practical guidelines from a well-known authority on early adolescence, this information-packed volume: Demonstrates how after-school programs emphasizing staff mentoring can provide critical resources for helping urban youth navigate the tumult of early adolescence. Includes engaging stories, the voices of adolescents, examinations of their interaction with staff, and analysis of the linkage between these relationships and youth well-being. Examines how savvy staff embrace positive dimensions of youth culture to enhance program effectiveness. Includes specific guidelines for how these types of after-school programs can build on what they do best, including how to incorporate selected aspects of more structured approaches. Investigates how gender shapes after-school programs. And much, much more

Critical Small Schools

Author : Maria Hantzopoulos
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1617356859
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Critical Small Schools written by Maria Hantzopoulos and published by IAP. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Small Schools: Beyond Privatization in New York City Urban Educational Reform features the most current empirical research about the successes and challenges of the small schools movement and the implications of such for urban public educational policy. Situated in a climate of hierarchical reform, many of the principles of the original small schools movement——which are rooted in community participation, innovative pedagogies and assessment, and equity and social justice——have become obscured by an educational agenda that emphasizes top-down mandates and standards-based reform. With the increased popularity and the rapid proliferation of small schools, the emphasis on ‘‘size only’’ has resulted in a bifurcation of the small schools movement; on one end are the small schools which have embraced the democratic, participatory, and self-governing nature of the original movement, while on the other end are schools that have simply reduced their size without rethinking school structures and practices. This book distinguishes the small schools featured and researched in this volume from schools that are simply small and labels them ““critical small schools.”” By documenting the practices that take place in various critical small schools in New York City, we show how these schools have narrowed the achievement gap and increased graduation and college acceptance rates. Although smallness is an essential feature in the design of these schools, it is certainly not the only one and this volume illuminates the other elements that contribute to these schools’’ successes and shortcomings. Critical Small Schools also challenges the recent emphasis on charter schools as a panacea for urban educational reform. By featuring research about the inner workings of public schools, this volume challenges this new direction that steers successful school development away from public education. Moreover, as every site is fraught with some tension, Critical Small Schools not only offers glimpses into intellectually vibrant and democratic learning communities, but also acknowledges that these concepts are not static and necessitate continual reflection and renewal. At this pivotal moment in educational reform, this volume provides keen insight into the challenges and possibilities of the small schools movement and is indispensable for anyone interested in comprehensive public school reform.

Teaching Urban Youth

Author : Peter G. Kontos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Urban Youth written by Peter G. Kontos and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Schools as Radical Sanctuaries

Author : René Antrop-González
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1617355925
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Schools as Radical Sanctuaries written by René Antrop-González and published by IAP. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large, comprehensive urban high schools were designed and constructed with the belief that they could meet the needs of all its students, academic and otherwise. By and large, however, these schools have only done a good job of sorting students for specific jobs in a society based on capitalism and White supremacy. Consequently, students schooled in these large institutions are often sorted depending on how they are situated and/or perceived by institutional agents (i.e. teachers, administrators, guidance counselors, and other staff) along racial/ethnic, class, gender, sexual orientation, and ability lines. The overall result of such structurally and culturally-based discriminatory practices has led to astronomically horrendous dropout/pushout rates among urban youth, particularly those of color who live in poverty. However, in such a sea of despair, there exist islands of hope and miracles. These islands of hope and miracles are constituted of small high schools that have become sanctuaries for their students, their families, and communities of color. Moreover, not only do these school sanctuaries exist, but they have the potential to serve as inspirations to communities that are looking to the small schools initiative as a possible solution to the widespread failure of large, comprehensive high schools to serve their needs. Although much recent small schools research discusses the benefits of smallness, very little of this research demonstrates or acknowledges the various ways in which communities have created small schools that have established the necessary conditions to make them sustainable, culturally relevant, and linked to social justice while greatly impacting the improved academic achievement of their students. Therefore, the focus of this book is to advance the school as radical sanctuary concept as described through the history, curricula, and experiences of urban youth and their teachers in two small urban high schools. This book is important for those educationists who wish to deepen their understanding of small school reform and its implications for urban education.

The Color of Success 2.0

Author : Gilberto Q. Conchas
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807782491
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Color of Success 2.0 written by Gilberto Q. Conchas and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of The Color of Success was a groundbreaking, asset-based exploration of the educational trajectories of high-achieving, low-income students within urban schools. The author brings his now seminal book up to date with insights based on existing and new research, current policies, and innovative pedagogical approaches. Conchas utilizes a critical lens to examine the intersectional identities of racially minoritized students, the role of existing power hierarchies within schools, and offers specific structural approaches that create educational opportunity. The Color of Success 2.0 amplifies student voice; explores school, family, and community partnerships; promotes culturally relevant pedagogy and teacher preparation; includes a new chapter on Black male optimism after the historic election of President Barack Obama; and offers a thought-provoking additional chapter on the role of educational leaders in promoting successful school pathways; plus, a thoroughly revised quantitative chapter on social capital. With a sense of urgency, readers will gain vital insights for understanding what is needed to create, promote, and expand equitable school environments and transformative pathways for racially minoritized urban youth. “This updated edition of The Color of Success is a timely and practical resource for practitioners and researchers alike. . . . Conchas’s work, once again, confirms that positive reforms are possible. Anyone who shares a commitment to social justice in education will find compelling and valuable insights.” —From the Foreword by Cynthia Feliciano, professor, Washington University in St. Louis

The Theatre of Urban

Author : Kathleen Gallagher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442691735
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Urban written by Kathleen Gallagher and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-05-05 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of its powerful socializing effects, the school has always been a site of cultural, political, and academic conflict. In an age where terms such as 'hard-to-teach,' and 'at-risk' beset our pedagogical discourses, where students have grown up in systems plagued by anti-immigrant, anti-welfare, 'zero-tolerance' rhetoric, how we frame and understand the dynamics of classrooms has serious ethical implications and powerful consequences. Using theatre and drama education as a special window into school life in four urban secondary schools in Toronto and New York City, The Theatre of Urban examines the ways in which these schools reflect the cultural and political shifts in big city North American schooling policies, politics, and practices of the early twenty-first century. pResisting facile comparisons of Canadian and American schooling systems, Kathleen Gallagher opts instead for a rigorous analysis of the context-specific features, both the differences and similarities, between urban cultures and urban schools in the two countries. Gallagher re-examines familiar 'urban issues' facing these schools, such as racism, classism, (hetero)sexism, and religious fundamentalism in light of the theatre performances of diverse young people and their reflections upon their own creative work together. By using theatre as a sociological lens, emThe Theatre of Urban

The Color of Success

Author : Gilberto Q. Conchas
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807746608
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book The Color of Success written by Gilberto Q. Conchas and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2006-01-21 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through students' own voices and perspectives, this book reveals how and why some racial minorities achieve academic success, despite limited opportunity. Based on the experiences of Black, Latino, and Vietnamese urban high school students, the author provides a revealing comparative analysis that offers insight into how schools can provide opportunities and safe learning environments where youth acquire real goals, expectations, and tangible pathways for success. Offering alternatives to current practices and structures of inequality that plague educational systems throughout the nation, this sociologically informed book: takes a rare look at urban school success stories, instead of those depicting failure; explores the social processes that enable racial minority youth to escape the unequal structures of urban schooling to perform well in school; and focuses on youth's interpretations and reactions to the schooling process to determine how schools can empower youth and promote the social mobility of low-income urban populations.