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idea/LABI Teacher Page: Teaching Critical Research
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Education, Access and Democracy In Los Angeles: LA Youth Convention 2000
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| During the summer of 2000, teachers, graduate students and university researchers worked with 30 high school seniors from Greater Los Angeles in a collaborative, critical research seminar on urban youth access and the Democratic National Convention. Funded by the Los Angeles Basin Initiative, this program was named Education, Access and Democracy in Los Angeles. This page features several educators speaking about their work with the seminar.
 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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| In Their Words, For Their Worlds: Academic and Critical Literacy Development in a High School Urban Studies Seminar by Ernest Morrell |
| A teacher discusses the course work, activities and theories involved in this critical research seminar. |
| Seminar Curricular Framework and Presentation Guidelines by Ernest Morrell and John Rogers |
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| The Social Construction of College Access: Confronting the Technical, Cultural, and Political Barriers to Low Income Students of Color by Jeannie Oakes, John Rogers, Martin Lipton & Ernest Morrell |
For an understanding of how the Education, Access & Democracy summer seminar relates to an overall agenda for challenging the ideology of meritocracy and promoting college access for low income students of color. 
To view this file, you may need to download and install on your computer the free Adobe Acrobat Reader! |
| Photo Gallery: Capturing A Moment of Learning by Martin Lipton |
| Marty Lipton takes us through a visual history of the the 2000 summer seminar. |
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