... the have-nots. It is a struggle over access to and control of local public schools, as demonstrated in the racial violence that followed attempts to bus black children from inner city neighborhoods to suburban schools (Wilson 89-121). Many psychologists and educators have argued that family backgrounds and individual and peer group attitudes are more important factors of performance than ... in culture may help to explain some of the lack of cultural synchronization, which impedes the learning process for many black students. "Cultural misunderstandings between teachers and students res...

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Thurgood Marshall High School is the newest of the six schools in Great Falls Illinois. The school opened two years ago amid national acclaim for being an important breakthrough in inner-city education (Gabarro, 1993). It was specially designed and constructed for the "house system" concept. Upon enrollment, students are assigned to one house. Houses may compete with one ... the highest absence rate and the most disciplinary problems. The third issue that must be addressed is the curriculum requirements and academic standards. There was conflict between the housemasters and the six subject a...

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... equality of opportunity, and personal development. Because Americans have historically insisted that their schools work toward these sometimes-conflicting goals, education has often been the focus of social conflict. While schools are expected to achieve many social objectives, education in America is neither centrally administered nor supported directly by the federal government, unlike education in other industrialized ... public schools were receiving federal subsidies for textbooks, transportation, breakfast and lunch programs, and services for students with disabilities. This fundi...

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... (Vandygriff) mentioned: "I personally wonder why we haven't had any major shooting here, since we are such a big school. Students are from economically well off families and we have very little inner-city (ghetto) influence here at Penn .. I guess that's why we're still safe."" Reflection upon the topic of my work and the paper itself On the whole the will of ... -instinct. If violence is the only way for those kids to react to their problems, many things have gone wrong in their lives and there must have been a really deep conflict until the youths decided to step over the line and kill...

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... empowered stance on where they are heading and what they want to be. With these issues in mind, this paper reports on research undertaken between 2009 and 2010 involving one inner city school in the western suburbs of Melbourne. The research was funded jointly by Melbourne City mission and the Victorian Department of Education from a funding pool that was a part of ... schools and community agencies' (p. 35). In the absence of processes and procedures that explicitly document interactions between schools, young people and local communities, there comes a greater likelihood of miscommuni...

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... empowered stance on where they are heading and what they want to be. With these issues in mind, this paper reports on research undertaken between 2009 and 2010 involving one inner city school in the western suburbs of Melbourne. The research was funded jointly by Melbourne City mission and the Victorian Department of Education from a funding pool that was a part of ... schools and community agencies' (p. 35). In the absence of processes and procedures that explicitly document interactions between schools, young people and local communities, there comes a greater likelihood of miscommuni...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate