For this edition of the "Bank Street Occasional Paper Series," educators were invited to share stories from their practice: times when they utilized children's literature and conversations to address real life; the difficult topics that children experience through the mirror of their own experiences or the windows of their peers,…

Through this performance ethnography the authors present the stories of emerging scholars who in their research identify an interest in equity issues in the field of mathematics education. The article is based on life-story interviews with 26 participants. Six composite characters were developed to represent the voices of the participants.…

The Civil War ended slavery but not the pernicious inequality of power and status that still characterizes relations between black and white America. As soon as they could, with the help of presidents bent on appeasement and the benign neglect of northerners who had fought the war to preserve the union but not necessarily to invite former slaves…

Discusses how to theorize diverse, working-class male students' masculinities within an inner-city, multicultural context. Data from discussions with boys at one inner-city London school are used to illustrate the boys' complex constructions of culturally entangled masculinities. Examines boys' constructions of "bad boy" masculinities…

Diversity has been a focus of higher education policy, law, and scholarship for decades, continually expanding to include not only race, ethnicity and gender, but also socioeconomic status, sexual and political orientation, and more. However, existing collections still tend to focus on a narrow definition of diversity in education, or in relation…

Utilizes feminist writing on social class to investigate the interplay of ethnicity, race, and class in the production of femininities. Asserts that politically engaged cultural studies of class are important to analyzing the identifications of girls living in multi-ethnic cities. The case study of a London school highlights complexities faced by…

Examines research about home and school relations to analyze the author's experiences as a parent activist in an urban public school, using the activity of nitpicking as both a literal explanation and metaphoric representation of the ways that women's responsibilities for maintaining children's emotional and physical wellbeing interfere with the…

Interviewed 35 African American parents to explore the gender socialization of their children and examine how race and class shaped parents' gender ideologies and behaviors. Results revealed significant support for teaching children gender role equality, though that support was mediated by social class (educational level) and social mobility…

Focuses on two general groups of methods that can be used to calculate achievement gaps between groups of students. States that the methods produce radically different results. Considers both of these methods and related problems in the calculation of achievement gaps in solving the contradiction between the two methods. Includes references. (CMK)

Questions are repeatedly raised about equality and equity in the education system. Teachers, policymakers, and parents have an interest in monitoring educational provision and outcomes in relation to various pupil groups, one of the most obvious being gender. To identify recent trends in the relationships between gender and attainment in Scotland,…

Argues that focusing on gender differences in educational outcomes without considering race and social class obscures gender achievement relationships. Draws on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice for its insights into the ways that structure and human agency generate social behavior. Presents hypotheses to explain the anomaly of women's…

Discusses a book that unravels how six young, African American men developed different meanings of the high school diploma, their experiences in classrooms, and their relationships with family members and peers, asserting that these meanings of school and relationships can be explained by examining the differential access to power and privilege,…

Describes the education provided to girls in the Meeting Schools that were eleven Quaker schools created by the Society of Friends in nineteenth-century England and also in private schools and home-based education. Addresses the relationship between education and the disproportionate representation of Quaker women in nineteenth-century social…

Explores issues of race, gender, and class, focusing on three Chinese women teachers' in-between cultural experiences in Canada and China and one black teacher's experiences in a Canadian multicultural school. In both cases, understandings of race, gender, and class and the effect on identity grew out of participants' personal and professional…

Considers the missing elements of race, class, gender, and power relations in the knowledge base for teacher education, suggesting a knowledge base for the missing ideas, especially in the area of questioning the effects of social, cultural, and historical movements and power relationships. The concept of social mooring is applied to make…