Success Stories and CIP Studies Related to Students' Experiences and Meanings from Outside School

Success Stories are published reports that demonstrate how taking particular cultural or social issues into account can improve educational practice and students' learning. CIP studies are reports in which educational practitioners used the CIP to examine a particular cultural or social issue related to their practice; all proper names within the studies are pseudonyms.

Students' Experiences and Meanings in General (3.4, 4.4, 5.4)

CIP Studies

A Cultural Inquiry into the Education of Muslim Students in America (2001)
An inquiry into the religious and cultural pride of Muslim students in a Muslim elementary and secondary school in the U.S.

Hidden Culture -- Finding the Individual (2002)
Inquiries into the influences that family and culture had on the verbal and writing skills of several pre-kindergarten students: Pakistani twins and a girl born of Ghanaian parents.

Math Can Be A Dangerous Thing--If It Is Being Done By Girls (2001)
An examination of the attitudes and behaviors of high school junior and senior girls when choosing higher-level mathematics courses.

Influences Outside School (3.4.1, 4.4.1, 5.4.1)

Success Stories

La Clase Mágica
A successful after-school program where bilingual children played culturally and developmentally designed computer games in collaboration with university undergraduates.

CIP Studies

Case of Maria (2000)
A study of a 3rd grade Hispanic girl who was having difficulties in a low-level mainstream mathematics class.

Math Can Be A Dangerous Thing--If It Is Being Done By Girls (2001)
An examination of the attitudes and behaviors of high school junior and senior girls when choosing higher-level mathematics courses.

One Teacher's Quest to Encourage Male Writers (2002)
An examination by a fifth grade teacher with many gifted children of ways to encourage boys to become better writers, focusing on four boys: an Afghani, a European American, a Latino, and a Korean.

Imbalances (3.4.2, 4.4.2, 5.4.2)

Success Stories

AVID Untracking Program
In this college preparation program several instructional practices, a changed school culture, peer groups, and parental support helped to boost the enrollment of underrepresented students in colleges and universities.

PLAN Program
This successful component of a bilingual education program for Latinos built a supportive community and helped the students create a vision for the future and develop a positive self-image.