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Urban Teachers and Schools: Fashionable Targets
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Ornstein, Allan C. – Educational Forum, 1971
Criticism of teachers who work among the poor is analyzed. (CK)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Problems, Poverty, School Organization
The Urban Setting: Frostbelt/Sunbelt Differences.
Ornstein, Allan C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1982
The author details how a massive shift of people, jobs, and money has benefited the "sunbelt" cities of the South and West at the expense of the "frostbelt" cities of the Northeast and Midwest. Some implications for education are suggested. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Financial Problems, Futures (of Society), Migration, Municipalities
Administrator/Student Ratios in Large School Districts.
Ornstein, Allan C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1989
According to a survey of large school districts, the ratio of central office managers to students enrolled ranges from 1 administrator per 1,650 students to 1 administrator per 161 students. The average ratio was 1 administrator per 561 students. Western school districts appear most efficient. The ideal: 1 administrator per 1,000 to 1,200…
Descriptors: Administrators, Central Office Administrators, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education
Urban Demographics for the 1980s: Educational Implications.
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Ornstein, Allan C. – Education and Urban Society, 1984
Current population trends represent a dramatic shift in wealth and educated people to the Sunbelt, creating a secondary effect in terms of growth, jobs, tax bases, and school enrollments. These trends will continue in the 1980s, intensifying the decline in economic conditions, the quality of social and educational services, and the quality of life…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged, Migration Patterns, Population Distribution
Research on Classroom and School Effectiveness and Its Implications for Improving Big City Schools.
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Levine, Daniel U.; Ornstein, Allan C. – Urban Review, 1989
Summarizes major findings and implications from research on the characteristics of effective classrooms and on characteristics that distinguish schools that have unusually high student achievement from those that enroll similar groups of students with much lower achievement. Discusses how these findings relate to improving achievement in city…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Educational Environment, Effective Schools Research
Reforming Metropolitan Schools.
Ornstein, Allan C.; And Others – 1975
After presenting an overview of metropolitan schools, described as not successful in providing an adequate education for economically disadvantaged students, the authors examine four critical issues: compensatory education, educational accountability, decentralization and community control, and desegregation. While compensatory education has not…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Administrative Organization, Community Control
Urban Education: Student Unrest, Teacher Behaviors, and Black Power.
Ornstein, Allan C. – 1972
The contents of this book are as follows. Chapter I, "The disadvantaged: overview and trends," provides a brief synopsis of some of the major factors related to educating the disadvantaged. Chapter II, "Emerging youth deprivation," examines two groups of students--middle- and upper-middle-class white students and black students of all classes--who…
Descriptors: Activism, Black Power, Blacks, Decentralization