This research study explored minority teachers' experiences in their teacher preparation programs after 1 to 5 years of teaching. The researcher examined whether these preparatory programs prepared novice teachers to teach in an urban, under-resourced school. The researcher's goal was to give novice elementary teachers who identify as minority a…

Disparities in school discipline data indicate that children of color, particularly boys, receive more frequent and harsher disciplinary actions than their white peers, and this begins in early schooling. Within today's print-centered, bodily restricted school curricula, literacy instruction is often reduced to highly controlled, leveled readers…