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Costigan, Arthur T. – Urban Education, 2013
This article presents 7 years of qualitative research into the emerging understandings of a population of 456 beginning 7 to 12 urban teachers who supplied 130 participants who were enrolled in a total of 26 MSEd English Language Arts courses over 7 years. These were interviewed while teaching in urban schools focused primarily on testing and…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Educational Change, Neoliberalism, Urban Teaching
Costigan, Arthur T. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2008
Many new teachers in urban settings understand that the ways in which they are required to teach stem from local implementation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), entitled "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB). Unfortunately, they find the legislation confusing, the implementations baffling, and the effect on the practicing…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Costigan, Arthur T. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2005
This study focuses on three new teachers, Arnie, Andrea, and Frank, who are New York City Teaching Fellows (NYCTF), a program of alternative teacher recruitment and certification that is in its third year at an urban public college in New York City. This study focuses on just three of the Fellows in order to have a more intense look into the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Public Colleges, Teacher Recruitment