Courting Success and Realizing the American Dream: Arizona's Mighty Miami High School Championship Basketball Team, 1951

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 924-946
Author(s):  
Christine Marin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Basketball Team

Mainstreaming in a Catholic School

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-98
Author(s):  
Bruce J. Dierenfield ◽  
David A. Gerber
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Catholic School ◽  
Elite Institution ◽  
Catholic High School ◽  
Deaf Student ◽  
Basketball Team

This chapter looks at the considerable challenges that Jim Zobrest faced as he attended Salpointe Catholic High School in Tucson, as the only deaf student in that elite institution. Jim’s experiment in mainstreaming did not succeed in overcoming his social isolation within the high school. The school itself largely left Jim to his own devices to succeed in this hearing environment. Jim therefore relied heavily on his interpreter, Jim Santeford, and his younger brother, Sam, to facilitate conversation with his teachers, classmates, and coaches. The kinds, methodologies, and technologies of deaf communication are also considered. Despite mostly succeeding in the classroom, Jim grew increasingly alienated from the school he and his family chose because he was unable to start on his school’s championship-caliber basketball team.

scholarly journals Investigation and Research on the Current Situation of Tai'an High School Basketball Team

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaofeng Ma ◽  
Li Qin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Shandong Province ◽  
The Status ◽  
Basketball Team

Basketball is a very popular sport. China's campus basketball, basketball training, national fitness basketball and other programs system is perfect, the number of games and participation is increasing. Tai'an City as shandong province high school basketball development leader has a certain representative, therefore, this paper on the status of Tai'an high school basketball team investigation and research, and put forward some suggestions, in order to provide some valuable basis for the development of Tai'an high school basketball team.

The Myth of the American Dream

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Rebecca Bloom ◽  
Danielle Cooperstock ◽  
Gianna Chacon ◽  
Jane Whitford ◽  
Molly Bernard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
American Dream ◽  
School Experiences ◽  
Student Debt ◽  
High School Experiences ◽  
Readers Theater ◽  
Low Incomes ◽  
And Gender

This article presents the script of “The Myth of the American Dream,” a readers theater researched, written, and presented by students in a women's and gender studies class called “Women, Social Class, and Social Policy.” The script illustrates six diverse respondents’ perspectives on how family backgrounds, intersectional identities, and high school experiences influenced college access and experiences, student debt, and current circumstances. The script poses the question: Does higher education, especially for students raised in low incomes, help achieve the American Dream? The article concludes with a reflection on this readers theater and why Bloom includes readers theater projects in her undergraduate classes.

Full-court press: How segregationist newspapers covered the championship season of an integrated Virginia high school basketball team

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-349
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Atwood ◽  
Sara Pietrzak
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
African American ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
African American Students ◽  
Racial Bias ◽  
Black Athletes ◽  
Sports Journalism ◽  
Community Journalism ◽  
American Students ◽  
Basketball Team

This qualitative study examines how two small Virginia newspapers that had opposed school integration covered an integrated high school boys basketball team that won a state championship three years after the school admitted African American students. While previous studies of sports journalism have found evidence of racial bias in the depiction of black athletes, this study finds values governing community journalism, including local boosterism, trumped racial bias.

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