Considerable research has examined the positive educational experiences of students of
color assigned to teachers of the same race or ethnicity. Underlying this research is the …

This article reviews the empirical evidence that suggests that there is a solid foundation for
more systematic research attention to the ways in which interventions that seek to reduce the …

In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a
negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco …

This highly readable text demystifies the qualitative research process? and helps readers
conceptualize their own studies? by organizing the different research paradigms and …

Over the past two decades, the short supply of teachers of color in elementary and
secondary public schools has drawn the attention of policymakers and educators alike. To …

The second edition of the Handbook of Motivation at School presents an integrated
compilation of theory and research in the field. With chapters by leading experts, this book …

This article examines an understudied aspect of teachers' sensemaking of student learning
data: the way in which teachers explain the causes of the outcomes observed in data …

This article asserts that White teachers in urban schools must turn their racialized focus
away from implied deficits of students of Color in the “achievement gap” frame and toward …

Based on extensive research, this provocative volume explores how schools are places
where racial conflicts often remain hidden at the expense of a healthy school climate and the …

Th ere is growing consensus that the nature and quality of children's relationships with their
teachers play a critical and central role in motivating and engaging students to learn (Becker …