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Direct linkGoodman, Steven – Teachers College Press, 2018
Speaking out against decades of injustice and challenging deficit perceptions of young learners and their families, "It's Not About Grit" pulls back the veil, revealing the social systems that marginalize and stigmatize mostly poor, urban students of color and their communities. At the same time, author Steven Goodman, founding executive…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Trauma, Equal Education, Transformative Learning
Jacobs, George; Farrell, Thomas S. C. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
The best way for students to learn to read and to come to love reading is--surprise, surprise--by reading in quantity. Unfortunately, many of today's students read far too little. This lack of time spent reading is particularly unfortunate, as reading constitutes a bedrock skill, essential in all subject areas. Thus, we teachers need to devote…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Materials, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning
Bitz, Michael – Harvard Education Press, 2009
Based on a four-year study, "Manga High" explores the convergence of literacy, creativity, social development, and personal identity in one of New York City's largest high schools. Since 2004, students at Martin Luther King, Jr., High School in Manhattan have been creating manga--Japanese comic books. They write the stories, design the…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Content Analysis, Urban Schools, Literacy
Wendell, Margaret M. – 1982
The primary focus of this book is upon the training of local writers to enable a preliterate, minority language group to produce reading materials that reflect the cultural interests and desires of the group. The training program described in the book involves three components: intensive linguistic study culminating in a tentative orthographic…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations, Global Approach
Wigginton, Eliot, Ed. – 1977
Planting by the signs of the moon, well digging, hewing logs, wood carving, knife making, bird trapping, and horsetrading are but a few of the aspects of Appalachian culture explored in "Foxfire 4." Like its predecessors, the volume was compiled by high school students at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School. Information on the cultural heritage…
Descriptors: Community Study, Cultural Background, Cultural Influences, Economically Disadvantaged
Wigginton, Eliot, Ed. – 1975
A window into the customs, folklore, and cultural heritage of Appalachia is provided in this volume, the third in the series of "Foxfire" books. Compiled by high school students at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee school, it is based on personal interviews with long-time residents of Appalachian Georgia. In many cases the material is in the words of…
Descriptors: Community Study, Cultural Background, Cultural Influences, Economically Disadvantaged
