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Dominic Terrel Walker – Sociology of Education, 2025
As organizations committed to providing upward social mobility and leadership development for academically high-achieving working-class youth of color, transitional school programs (TSPs) prepare students to transition from urban public schools to elite, mostly private high schools. However, TSPs' dependence on wealthy, White institutions to…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Social Mobility, Minority Group Students, Working Class
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Goldfien, Andrea C.; Badway, Norena Norton – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Scientists, researchers, and educators have promoted the improvement of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education by incorporating an interdisciplinary approach to the study of STEM; but current research offers little guidance about how this change can occur. This study expands on a new body of research examining faculty…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Teacher Leadership, STEM Education, Organizational Change
Kozeracki, Carol; Inciong, Denice – Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (RP Group), 2008
In Spring 2007, the State Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges awarded the Transfer Leadership Center (TLC) study to investigate two-to-four year transfer practices and strategies. As part of the study's qualitative component, research teams from the Center for Student Success of the Research & Planning Group of the…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Urban Schools, Minority Group Students, Community Colleges
Minicucci, Catherine – 1996
Findings from a 4-year study of exemplary science and mathematics programs for middle school students with limited English proficiency (LEP) are presented. The four programs described here provide stimulating mathematics and science curricula through instruction in either the students' native language or in English using sheltered techniques.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Educational Change