Pop culture has provided us with plenty of memorable representations of school, especially high school, an institution that, canonical narratives of American adolescence tell us, is something not to be enjoyed but merely to be survived.
Research on media representations of school shootings suggested that in the case of white suburban school shootings, newspaper articles were written in a manner more likely to foster sympathy for the shooters.
The scenario is indelibly marked on the silver screen's representation of school life.
In the allocation of representation, each school constitutes a major constituency.
"We don't really know enough about the reasons for African-American and Latino over-representation in school discipline.
It is argued that such a shift in community representations of schools may hinder the agenda of promoting education in disadvantaged settings.
Crucially, data from the study indicate that the MDMS has contributed to a shift in community representations of schools from being a site for imparting education to that of an institution providing free meals.
We are being denied ourselves in the lack of representation in schools that only show the oppressors in their glory.
The Collaborative is a loose network of students, medical residents, and New Haven community members, with representation across schools as diverse as medical, nursing, physicians associates, public health, law, business, forestry, and more.
Moving away from focusing on LGBTQ as an area of risk to be managed and toward representation in schools of LGBTQ sexualities as part of teachers', students', parents' everyday lives, may well do more to reduce the targeting of LGBTQ students than an anti-bullying initiative.
