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Download full textSchwartz, Wendy – 1996
Charter schools are created and managed by an entity composed of parents and/ or teachers, community and/or business leaders, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit businesses. Many people believe that charter schools can provide a high quality education without the regulatory constraints of the conventional public schools. This digest reviews…
Descriptors: Accountability, Charter Schools, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change
Schwartz, Wendy – 1994
This report is based on information obtained from a survey conducted by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education and provides a brief overview of the different programmatic approaches to bias reduction and violence prevention. The characteristics of the projects are discussed in terms of their underlying philosophy, the issues covered, training…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Conflict Resolution, Directories, Educational Methods
Schwartz, Wendy – 1995
The concept of "opportunity to learn" (OTL) strategies was first introduced several decades ago and was defined by a narrow set of instructional components. Since then, many additional criteria have been incorporated into the OTL concept, some specifically to ensure an equal education for disadvantaged and minority students. The original…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Ancillary School Services, Criteria, Curriculum
Flaxman, Erwin; Schwartz, Wendy; Weiler, Jeanne; Lahey, Meghan – 1998
This report examines several important trends and issues in urban education and minority education. It reviews major principles for rethinking urban schooling so that students from diverse racial, ethnic, linguistic, and gender groups will be able to receive a more equal education, and it considers specific issues in their education. The focus is…
Descriptors: Diversity (Student), Educational Change, Educational Practices, Educational Trends
Schwartz, Wendy – 1988
This report reviews six recently published books on the education of urban and minority youth, and the social and cultural environment in which they live. "The Homeless in Contemporary Society" (edited by R. D. Bingham, R. E. Green, and S. B. White), is a primer on homelessness in America. "Gender Influences in Classroom…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Book Reviews, Elementary Secondary Education
Schwartz, Wendy – 1988
This document reviews the following books on urban and minority education: (1) "Communicating Racism: Ethnic Prejudice in Thought and Talk" (Teun A. van Dijk), which discusses the ways that prejudice and negative stereotypes are conveyed in discourse and then socially reproduced in everyday thought, talk, and action; (2) "American Business and the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Black Youth, Blacks
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