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Joysi Moraes; Elisangela Modesto; Sandra R. H. Mariano; Robson Moreira Cunha – Journal of Education and Learning, 2023
This article discusses the impact of entrepreneurship education in socioeconomically disadvantaged contexts, emphasizing its perceived dynamic nature in reflecting personal values, social changes, and cultural differences (Lackéus, 2015; Loi et al., 2022; Berglund et al., 2020; Berglund & Johansson, 2007). The focus is on the implementation of…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Teaching Methods, Employment Opportunities, Academic Achievement
Yu, Chien-Hong; Kuo, Ching-Chih; Chen, Yen-Wei; Chu, Chien-Chi – Gifted Education International, 2020
The Bright Mind Project, sponsored by Morgan Stanley Taiwan and Chinese Association of Gifted Education, was launched in 2004 and ended in 2018. With scholarships, living subsidies, enrichment courses, and counseling provided, this project was tailored for gifted senior high students of socioeconomically disadvantaged families in Taiwan. After the…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Gifted
Birney, Lauren; McNamara, Denise – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2018
This paper explores the issue of social justice through the lens of equitable access to Advanced Placement courses in the City of New York High Schools, with focus on Advanced Placement Environmental Science. A critical component of the Advanced Placement Environmental Science course is the incorporation of environmental fieldwork. The National…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Environmental Education, Employment Opportunities, STEM Education
Solano, Gina L. – Critical Questions in Education, 2020
This article describes a university service-learning program with preservice teachers who volunteered as tutors to teach in an adult GED program. The adult participants were involved in a local drug court program, which is a branch in the criminal justice system. Project Literacy Instruction to Further Education (Project LIFE) was developed by the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Higher Education, High School Equivalency Programs, Preservice Teachers
Birney, Lauren; McNamara, Denise – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2021
In an increasingly data driven world, the need for a qualified STEM workforce is essential. Increasing the diversity of this workforce increases the social and economic possibilities for the individual as well as national economic status and global prominence in innovation and technology. The Curriculum and Community Enterprise for Restoration…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, STEM Education, Disproportionate Representation, Diversity
Bettinger, Eric P.; Evans, Brent J. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019
Pre-college advising programs exist in most disadvantaged high schools throughout the United States. These programs supplement traditional advising by high school guidance counselors and attempt to help underrepresented and disadvantaged students overcome the complexities of the postsecondary admission and financial aid processes. Existing…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Disadvantaged Schools, High School Students, College Attendance
Thomas S. Dee; Elizabeth Huffaker – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Background/Context: High school mathematics attainment has significant consequences for postsecondary and labor market outcomes (Altonji, 1995; Dougherty et al., 2017; Goodman, 2019; Kim, 2018; Long et al., 2012) yet enrollment in advanced courses (i.e., those requiring completion of Algebra II) is starkly stratified by race, class, and ethnicity…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Academic Persistence, High School Students
Kenny, Maureen E.; Blustein, David L.; Liang, Belle; Klein, Timothy; Etchie, Quinn – Journal of Career Development, 2019
New models of career education are needed to prepare young people for changes and challenges in the world of work. We propose that the psychology of working framework/theory (PWF/PWT) has the potential to shape career education in transformative ways that are attentive to shifting dimensions of the local context and the marginalization of large…
Descriptors: Career Education, Transformative Learning, Disadvantaged, Intervention
Ogude, Nthabiseng A.; Mathabathe, Kgadi C.; Mthethwa, Nosipho; White, Regina – Metropolitan Universities, 2020
The University of Pretoria (UP) adopted an anchor institution strategy and designated the Mamelodi Campus as a faculty with a focus on community engagement with the primary goal of broadening educational pathways to post-secondary school attainment. As a conceptual shift from the community engagement literature, the Mamelodi Campus identifies the…
Descriptors: Universities, Strategic Planning, Campuses, School Community Relationship
Sarah Komisarow – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
StudentU is a comprehensive program that provides education, nutrition, and social support services to disadvantaged middle and high school students outside of the regular school day. In this paper I investigate the effects of this multiyear program on the early high school outcomes of participating students by exploiting data from oversubscribed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Nutrition Instruction, Social Support Groups, Disadvantaged
Hoooker, Sarah; Acevedo, Erica; Dow, Molly – Jobs for the Future, 2021
For over a year, stories of economic devastation, food and housing insecurity, and the challenges of remote learning have dominated headlines as the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in dramatic changes for education, businesses, and communities. In the Columbus, Ohio region, the pandemic widened existing inequalities, as it did across the rest of the…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, COVID-19, Pandemics
Liu, Shuning – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
Since 2010, the number of urban Chinese high-school students applying to US universities has rapidly grown. Many of these students have chosen emerging international curriculum programs established by elite public high schools in China. These programs prepare wealthy Chinese students for the US college application process by exposing them to an…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, High School Students, Marketing, Access to Education
Yull, Denise; Wilson, Marguerite; Murray, Carla; Parham, Lawrence – School Community Journal, 2018
Parents' involvement in their children's education is widely understood as a key component of educational success. However, schools typically expect parents to engage with the school system in ways consistent with White, middle-class parenting and behavioral norms and in ways that are deferential to the school's agenda. In this article, we report…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Parent Participation, Mentors
Casanova, Carlos R.; Cammarota, Julio – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2019
This ongoing ethnographic study examines how a counter-space, La Libertad, introduces Latin@ students to a liberating pedagogy of praxis which counters dehumanization they experience in their high school. The researcher spent 180+ hours over 14 months in the field collecting data through participant observation, field notes, and personal…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Hispanic American Students, Teaching Methods, High School Students
Slaten, Christopher D.; Rivera, Roberto C.; Shemwell, Daniel; Elison, Zachary M. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2016
A growing body of research suggests educators need to focus on cultivating social and emotional competencies that youth will need to thrive in the new knowledge economy (Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, & Schellinger, 2011). For marginalized urban youth, in particular, few have derived programs and interventions to assist with these…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Urban Youth