Update 6 – Learning Sciences in Urban Schools

Update 6 – Learning Sciences in Urban Schools

Student rituals and culturally relevant analogies: Analogy and metaphor as a key to communal practice In this study, the research has discovered that heigh...More

Update 2 – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (“Hood Disease”) in Minority Children

Trauma exposure is high in African Americans who live in stressful urban environments. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression are common outcomes of trauma...More

Update 7 – Implicit Bias in ELL Quantitative Testing Methods

There are a variety of problems with the testing of ELL students, problems that predate but are often compounded by the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB, 2001). Here is a brief summ...More

Collaborative Learning Practices with Diverse Populations

Collaborative learning teams are said to attain higher level thinking and preserve information for longer times than students working individually. Why is this so?

Many consider Vygotsky th...More

Collaborative learning teams are said to attain higher level thinking and preserve information for longer times than students working individually. Why is this so?

Many consider Vygotsky the father of ‘social learning.’ Vygotsky was an education...More

Trauma exposure is high in African Americans who live in stressful urban environments. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression are common outcomes of trauma exposure and are understudied in African Americans. African Americans are more...More

There are a variety of problems with the testing of ELL students, problems that predate but are often compounded by the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB, 2001). Here is a brief summary of some of the most salient issues. (For a history of fede...More

Update 6 – Learning Sciences in Urban Schools

Student rituals and culturally relevant analogies: Analogy and metaphor as a key to communal practice In this study, the research has discovered that heightened levels of emotional energy, synchrony,...More

How schools are using restorative justice to remedy racial disparities in discipline

Too many schools today are pushing children into pipelines of incarceration and violence instead of liberation

From slavery times to the present, black people...More

AFRICAN AMERICANS currently score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading, and mathematics tests, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence. This gap appears before children enter kindergarten (figur...More

The Male Socialization Process of African American Males

All humans are situated in an historical as well as a cultural process. Any understanding of African American men is predicated on an understanding of African American history and culture. Th...More

When you have students that come from marginalized communities, their life experiences and environment contributes to the behavior that has a direct effect on their relationships with others. The personal factors involved included dealing with the f...More