The immigrant Latino population of North Central Indiana has hopes of improving youth's
academics, but must overcome tremendous obstacles to do so. The current study addresses …

Community Practice and Urban Youth is for graduate level students in fields that offer youth
studies and community practice courses. Practitioners in these fields, too, will find the book …

In this manuscript, we rely on practices of thinking with and through theory to situate and
analyze the discourses of three neoliberal educational reform initiatives. We researched …

Background Teacher education programs at Minority Serving Institutions–which include
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Native American and Tribal Colleges, Asian …

To effectively teach historically marginalized groups of students, educators have argued for
increasing recruitment and retention of teachers of color. This qualitative study draws on …

The article conceptualizes community-school partnerships (CSP) as racial projects. Drawing
on data from a mixed-methods study of how CSPs increase belonging for migrant youth, the …

Background Drop-in centers are safe havens for youth experiencing homelessness. We
examine drop-in centers within a positive youth development (PYD) framework to explore …

This article is an ethnographic study of a hip hop-based music education programme for
students within elementary school classrooms. Drawing on two years of fieldwork in two …

To understand how dominant messages about race and effective pedagogy impact
teacherbeliefs and practice, this study employs critical race theory (CRT) in a case study …

The purpose of this article is to present the development and validation of a Community
Resilience Scale for Youth (CRS-Y) among a Portuguese sample of nearly 4000 young …