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Bautista, Mark A.; Bertrand, Melanie; Morrell, Ernest; Scorza, D'Artagnan; Matthews, Corey – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background: The research community has long documented educational disparities along race lines. Countless studies have shown that urban African American and Latino students are systematically denied educational resources in comparison to their white counterparts, resulting in persistent achievement disparities (Ladson-Billings, 2006;…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Urban Youth, African American Students
McDonald-Kenworthy, Nancy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Through analysis of a qualitative online ethnography in an Internet text-based website message board database called "WidowNet" (http://www.widownet.org/wnbb3), I studied online text conversations of adults who lost their life partners to death. This online autoethnographical research investigates how and why online widows/widowers perform their…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Internet, Computer Mediated Communication, Databases
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Wyatt, Tasha R. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2010
This study investigated the adaptation process of an externally developed model of reform in Greenland's educational system. Under investigation was how reform leaders responded to the needs of the community after implementing an educational model developed in the United States by researchers at the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Models, Professional Development