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Epstein, Terrie; Gist, Conra – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2015
This article examines how three culturally relevant teachers in New York City public schools challenged the concepts of race and racism which low-income adolescents of color brought to the study of history and contemporary society. Framed by concepts of culturally relevant teaching and racial literacy, the study illustrated how the teachers used…
Descriptors: Humanities Instruction, Secondary School Curriculum, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Literacy
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Gerena, Linda; Keiler, Leslie – Bilingual Research Journal, 2012
The Peer Enabled Restructured Classroom (PERC) program is a peer-teaching model developed by the Math and Science Partnership in New York City (MSPinNYC) to help underachieving and historically at-risk urban students succeed in math and science courses. Although preliminary success of this program has been substantial, there has not been a…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Test Results, Summer Programs, Teaching Models
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Gerwin, David – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2003
A "Motivation" eliciting the "Aim" of each lesson initiates each lesson in the orthodox "developmental lesson-plan" that has dominated classroom instruction in NYC public schools for at least the past half-century. An action-research study of 38 lesson-plans (over 5 each from 5 teachers) drawn from student-teaching…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teaching Models, Teacher Effectiveness, Lesson Plans