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Promising Practices and Unfinished Business: Fostering Equity and Excellence for Black and Latino Males. Executive Summary
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Tung, Rosann; Carlo, Vivian Dalila; Colón, Melissa; Del Razo, Jaime L.; Diamond, John B.; Raynor, Alethea Frazier; Graves, Daren; Kuttner, Paul J.; Miranda, Helena; St. Rose, Andresse – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2015
Boston Public Schools (BPS) commissioned companion studies as part of its efforts to address achievement gaps for Black and Latino males. The first study revealed the increasing diversity of Black and Latino males and stark opportunity gaps throughout the system that contribute in large part to wide attainment gaps for these students. We…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Males, Equal Education
Promising Practices and Unfinished Business: Fostering Equity and Excellence for Black and Latino Males
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Tung, Rosann; Carlo, Vivian Dalila; Colón, Melissa; Del Razo, Jaime L.; Diamond, John B.; Raynor, Alethea Frazier; Graves, Daren; Kuttner, Paul J.; Miranda, Helena; St. Rose, Andresse – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2015
Boston Public Schools (BPS) commissioned companion studies as part of its efforts to address achievement gaps for Black and Latino males. The first study revealed the increasing diversity of Black and Latino males and stark opportunity gaps throughout the system that contribute in large part to wide attainment gaps for these students. We…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Males, Equal Education
African American Parents' Educational Orientations: The Importance of Social Class and Parents' Perceptions of Schools
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Diamond, John B.; Gomez, Kimberley – Education and Urban Society, 2004
Research on race, social class, and parent involvement in education often implies that parents' educational orientations result directly from their social class or racial group backgrounds. In this article, the authors study the involvement of working-class and middle-class African American parents. They argue that these parents' educational…
Descriptors: Racial Factors, Social Class, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
Teachers' Expectations and Sense of Responsibility for Student Learning: The Importance of Race, Class, and Organizational Habitus
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Diamond, John B.; Randolph, Antonia; Spillane, James P. – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2004
This article examines how the concentration of low-income African American students in urban elementary schools is deeply coupled with a leveling of teachers' expectations of students and a reduction in their sense of responsibility for student learning. We argue that this process is rooted in school-based organizational habitus through which…
Descriptors: African American Students, Academic Achievement, Low Income Groups, Urban Education