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Gutstein, Eric – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2016
This article provides an example of, and lessons from, teaching and learning critical mathematics in a Chicago public neighborhood high school with a social justice focus. It is based on a qualitative study of my untracked, 12th-grade mathematics class, a full-year enactment of mathematics for social and racial justice. Students were Black and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Urban Schools, High Schools, Social Justice
Fine, Michelle; Weis, Lois – 1998
The deeply fractured nature of U.S. society is examined, focusing on poor and working class people in cities. Based on data from 154 poor and working class young adults aged 23 to 35, the study reveals the ways in which this urban generation has suffered from social change. The following chapters are included: (1) "Voices of Hope and Despair:…
Descriptors: Blacks, Ethnography, Life Events, Low Income Groups