Alexander-Snow, M. (2011). The piney woods school: An exploration of the historically black boarding school experience in shaping student achievement, cultural esteem, and collegiate integration. Urban Education, 46(3), 322-341. This qualitative case study explores the cultural impact the Piney Woods School, a historically Black independent boarding school, had on the… Continue Reading The Piney Woods School: An Exploration of the Historically Black Boarding School Experience in Shaping Student Achievement, Cultural Esteem, and Collegiate Integration
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Discursive Positioning in a Fifth-Grade Writing Lesson: The Making of a “Bad, Bad Boy”
Collins, K. M. (2011). Discursive positioning in a fifth-grade writing lesson: The making of a “Bad, bad boy”. Urban Education, 46(4), 741-785. In this article the author draws on the concept of positioning to examine how language is used during one particular fifth-grade writing lesson to construct both the lesson… Continue Reading Discursive Positioning in a Fifth-Grade Writing Lesson: The Making of a “Bad, Bad Boy”
I Know Who I Am, Do You?: Identity and Academic Achievement of Successful African American Male Adolescents in an Urban Pilot High School in the United States
Wright, B. L. (2011). I know who I am, do you?: Identity and academic achievement of successful african american male adolescents in an urban pilot high school in the united states. Urban Education, 46(4), 611-638. This study explores racial-ethnic identity and academic achievement of five young African American men in… Continue Reading I Know Who I Am, Do You?: Identity and Academic Achievement of Successful African American Male Adolescents in an Urban Pilot High School in the United States