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Fairbanks, Colleen M.; Crooks, Penny Mason; Ariail, Mary – Harvard Educational Review, 2011
In this article, Fairbanks, Crooks, and Ariail followed Esme Martinez, a Spanish-speaking Latina, from the sixth grade to the eleventh grade, focusing on her perspectives of schooling and her shifting identities related to home, school, friendships, and future. Drawing on the construct of artifacts, a sociohistorical concept that understands…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Identification (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Sociocultural Patterns
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Powers, Jeanne M.; Chapman, Paula L. – NASSP Bulletin, 2007
This article contains an analysis of a component of a large-scale reform effort in an urban school district that entailed placing high school students identified as underperforming in literacy in separate classes aimed at accelerating their learning. The relationship between students academic performance and social backgrounds, school…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Educational Change, Urban Schools, Secondary Education