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McArthur, Sherell A.; Muhammad, Gholnecsar E. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2017
Writing alongside 12 African American Muslim girls, we led a summer literacy program in an effort to understand how Black Muslim adolescent girls write about their identities and ideas. The 4-week literacy program was designed to engage and support Black Muslim girls, aged 12-17 years old, in reading, writing, and understanding the multiple…
Descriptors: Females, African Americans, Muslims, Summer Programs
MITMAN, BETTY A.; TUTTLE, MARY E. – 1965
AN 8-WEEK SUMMER PROGRAM TO PROVIDE A TRANSITIONAL EXPERIENCE FOR 69 GIFTED CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED GIRLS (GRADES 8 TO 11) WHO WERE GIVEN CONDITIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS TO INDEPENDENT HIGH SCHOOLS CONSISTED OF INTENSIVE TUTORING IN ENGLISH, READING, AND MATHEMATICS. A PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STAFF WAS ASSISTED BY UNDERGRADUATE RESIDENT TUTORS, WHO ACTED…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Disadvantaged, English Curriculum, Enrichment Activities
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Hicks, Deborah – Research in the Teaching of English, 2004
Drawing on data gathered during a fourteen-month study of reading practices among poor and working-class girls, this essay explores the challenges of creating a responsive and critical reading pedagogy across boundaries of class. Set largely in a summer and after-school reading program for pre-teen girls, the study addressed the question of how a…
Descriptors: Females, Reading Programs, Critical Reading, Reading Instruction