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Title: EXPLORING THE INFLUENCE OF DRAMATIC ARTS ON UNDEREXAMINED LITERACIES: EXPERIENCES OF BLACK GIRLS IN AN URBAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
Author: York, Portia
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Performing arts, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: This study examined the influence of drama participation on foundational, digital, and Black Girls’ literacies of urban middle school Black girls. This interpretive case study used the Culturally Relevant Arts Education framework with Black Femini...

Title: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP IN IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS AT ONE URBAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Author: Morgan, Jonimay
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: Beginning with the Lau decision (Sugarman & Widess, 1974), it has been the responsibility of schools to provide educational support to English Language Learners (ELL). However, as elucidated by Hakuta (2017), educators continually struggle to supp...

Title: Incidents In The Life Of A Cyber Girl: Exploring Instagram As A Potential Counterspace For Black Girls’ Literacy Practices
Author: Anderson, Jimmeka
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational technology, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Curriculum planning
Description: Although research has been done to explore social media as a safe space with Black girls (Womack, 2013), there is limited research that assesses social media as a counter space for Black girls’ literacies. According to The Associated Press-NORC Ce...

Title: Reducing the Underrepresentation of Black Male Middle School Students in Higher Level Mathematics Courses: Principals' Perspectives
Author: Barone, Jacqueline
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education
Description: Students in urban schools face a number of challenges including lower enrollment numbers in higher level mathematics courses. This particular challenge has the drastic consequence of increasing the achievement gap and reducing the opportunities av...

Title: THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCES OF INTERNATIONAL BLACK WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES: A CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVE
Author: Talley Matthews, Sheikia
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: ABSTRACT. Institutions of higher education in the United States enroll the largest number of international students in the world each year (Bain & Cummings, 2005). In 2014-2015, the United States hosted 974,926 international students from around t...

Title: Transforming Early Childhood Education Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
Author: Ardrey, Tameka
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education
Description: Low-income African American children have been identified among the majority of children without access to high-quality early education (Barnett, Carolan & Johns, 2013). Consequently, they lack the necessary skills to successfully navigate the sch...

Title: VIGNETTES OF SCHOLARS: A CASE STUDY OF BLACK MALE STUDENTS AT A STEM EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL
Author: Adams, Tempestt
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Ensuring students graduate high school ready to enter college or the workforce has become a prime focus within secondary education. High school graduates are often ill-prepared for college-level work and often have to register for remedial courses...