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Direct linkChristopher Redding – Urban Education, 2025
Given urban school and district administrators' historical challenges with recruiting and retaining a high-quality, racially diverse teacher workforce, there is a need to better understand the factors shaping why graduates return to teach in their home district. This descriptive study examines the high school students who returned to teach in…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High School Graduates, Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Status
Heath, Ryan D.; Anderson, Charity; Turner, Ashley Cureton; Payne, Charles M. – Urban Education, 2022
Increased political and research interest in extracurricular activities stems, in part, from the claim that these programs especially benefit disadvantaged youth. However, little literature has synthesized studies across types of disadvantage to assess this claim. This article reviews research on disadvantaged youth in extracurricular programs,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Extracurricular Activities, Gender Differences, Immigrants
Bondy, Jennifer M.; Peguero, Anthony A.; Johnson, Brent E. – Urban Education, 2019
Social bonds to school (i.e., attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief) can influence educational progress and success for students; however, the children of immigrants' bonding to school remain unclear. This study utilizes data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 and incorporates multilevel analysis to examine straight-line…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Student School Relationship, Gender Differences, Race
Boone, Simon; Van Houtte, Mieke – Urban Education, 2016
Urban-rural disparities in educational outcomes have so far primarily received attention in U.S.-based research. These studies show that pupils in rural areas are at a disadvantage compared with pupils in (sub)urban areas. This article aims to examine urban-nonurban differences in educational choice in a European context, namely Flanders (the…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Regional Characteristics, School Choice, Rural Urban Differences
Gottfried, Michael A. – Urban Education, 2014
Recent evidence suggests that the neighborhood context, particularly for urban youth, can influence a range of outcomes. This study makes contributions to the field by examining how the neighborhood context directly relates to missing school. To do so, this study employs a large-scale, longitudinal data set of multilevel observations for entire…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Context Effect, Predictor Variables, Attendance Patterns
Wright, Brian L. – Urban Education, 2011
This study explores racial-ethnic identity and academic achievement of five young African American men in 11th and 12th grade in an urban pilot high school. Data gathered through individual and group interviews and a questionnaire were analyzed to understand how academically successful African American male adolescents interpret their social and…
Descriptors: African Americans, Ethnicity, Academic Achievement, Adolescents
