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African American Urban Public High School Graduates’ Experiences Concerning Mathematics, Lorenzo A. Rashid
African American Urban Public High School Graduates’ Experiences Concerning Mathematics, Lorenzo A. Rashid
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This interpretive qualitative study explored African American urban public high school graduates’ experiences concerning mathematics, how these experiences may play a role in the choice to further their mathematics education, and how the Model of Academic Choice (MAC) may facilitate in the understanding of the experiences.
It examined the lived experiences of seven African American urban public high school graduates concerning their mathematics education. Through criterion-based sampling, the seven participants selected had graduated from a public high school located in Northeast Ohio school districts having similar characteristics.
Data were collected through semi-structured interviews that explored participants’ kindergarten through post-secondary mathematics …