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idea/LABI Student Page: Urban Youth as Critical Researchers
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Education, Access and Democracy in Los Angeles: LA Youth & Convention 2000
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"Why is it that whenever politicians are arguing youth issues like education, and violence in schools, that there are no actual youth present?"
- Anthony Locke
12th Grade Student from LA
 CNN Video (2.1 MB)
Over the summer, CNN produced a segment about these high school critical researchers and their efforts to enter the 2000 Democratic National Convention. To watch this CNN segment, click here.
(requires QuickTime plug-in)
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This summer, 30 high school seniors from greater Los Angeles joined teachers, graduate students and university researchers in a research seminar. They studied urban youth access to community institutions and resources against the backdrop of the Democratic National Convention. Funded by idea and the Los Angeles Basin Initiative, this program was named Education, Access and Democracy in Los Angeles. The students worked in research groups and presented their findings to university and high school faculty, politicians, and concerned community citizens. Here is their story... |
| Student Essays |
| The Fortress of Staged Democracy: A Student/Researcher's Journey Through the Democratic National Convention by Ebony Cain
Youth to Youth: A Critical Analysis of "Democracy Live" by Mayneth Hernández
If It Bleeds It Leads: An Examination of Media and Access
by Milinda Baltazar
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| Student Daily Journals |
| Daily Prompt: "You have been selected to lead youth protest. What are you demands? How will you organize fellow youth, including the reluctant ones? During the DNC how will you demonstrate? What is your objective?"
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| Video Journals |
A student discusses the importance of becoming a critical researcher.
Cynthia López
Students talk about what they feel is the most important issue facing their communties:
Tanae McNeil, Nuria Santamaría, Anthony Locke, Mireya Robles, Angie Martínez, Cynthia López |
| Readers' Theater |
| Inglewood teacher Yetunde Reeves worked with the 2000 Seminar students to compile the daily journals into a readers' theater. |
| Photo Gallery: Capturing A Moment of Learning by Martin Lipton |
| Marty Lipton takes us through a visual history of the the 2000 summer seminar. |
| Student Presentations |
| Youth Access to Learning Outside of School (1.8 MB) Downloadable PowerPoint presentation by Nuria Santamaría, Veronica Sena, Mayneth Hernández, Lee Dominquez, Victoria Kraus
Youth Access to Media and Media Access to Youth by Tifffany Davis, Tanae McNeal, Milinda Baltazar, Lucy Rodriguez, Norman white, John Moore
 To view the file above, you may need to download and install on your computer the free Adobe Acrobat Reader!
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MORE CRITICAL RESEARCH:
The Hip-Hop Project: The Potential of Youth Culture in the Curriculum by Tiffany Davis, Corey Lenaris, Carissa Page, and Rigoberto Quintana |
| During the Summer of 1999, juniors from Santa Monica High School converged on UCLA to engage in research related to the Sociology of Education. One of the research groups focused on the potential of incorporating the critical study of Hip-Hop Culture into the traditional curriculum. |
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