The social and economic problems that are affecting New York City are not local problems. Adequate responses to the problems will require state and federal help. (IRT)

Describes an exhibition sponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, featuring hundreds of spirals to observe, which toured 38 neighborhoods in the five boroughs of New York City in 18 months, relying on community support and extension. (JM)

Explores the meaning of professional development in the context of standards-based education and describes professional development as it is being put into place in New York City's Community School District 2, a racially and socioeconomically diverse city school district. Professional development must become an everyday activity in teaching. (SLD)

Preliminary findings of a study of assistance personnel, or "change agents," in urban school improvement programs, failed to show an association between the effectiveness of educational change agents and any particular skills they employed. The study did isolate a nummber of general and specific skills that study participants identified…

More than 50,000 New York City special education students in self-contained classes and resource rooms in grades 2-9 were tested in reading on the California Achievement Test, Form C. Students who had testing modifications recommended on their individualized education programs were tested with the appropriate modification. Among the moderately…

THE PURPOSE OF AN URBAN EDUCATION RESOURCES AND CONSULTATION CENTER WOULD BE TO IMPROVE THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OF INNER-CITY SCHOOLS BY MAKING AVAILABLE INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE ON CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION, INCLUDING MATERIALS, CONTENT, TEACHING TECHNIQUES, AND EVALUATION PROCEDURES. SUCH TOPICS AS ADMINISTRATION, FINANCE, AND ORGANIZATION…

Aspira of New York, Philadelphia Welfare Rights Organization, and Harlem Parents Union are three self help groups that seek quality education for urban disadvantaged children. Differences and similarities of the philosophies and actions of these groups toward educational improvement for their constituencies are described in this article.…

Portrays a principal, district superintendent, and reformer, whose career lasted from 1872 to 1912. Whereas her career illuminates aspects of women's history and educational change, her conflict with the East Side community demonstrates the perils of simplistic thinking about race and ethnicity. (Author/JM)

Describes New York City's Parklands Partnership Program, in which elementary and secondary students visit natural woodlands areas in their neighborhood, learn about forest ecology, and engage in restoration and reforestation activities that foster a connection between themselves and their local environment. (SV)

This experimental curriculum guide for bicycle safety begins with a chapter listing vehicle and traffic laws pertaining to bicycling. Chapter 2 of the guide is organized by grade level. Appropriate lesson plans for bicycle safety are presented with aims, concepts activities and behavioral objectives. A 24-item list of activities summarizes these…

This guide is designed for New York City school teachers who will conduct tennis classes for about 50 students while using limited tennis facilities. The insides of school buildings and school playgrounds will constitute the "courts" for these lessons. This type of introduction to the sport is intended to give students a sense of the…

This is a participant-observer's description and analysis of an American ghetto school, Midway School. The viewpoint that distinguishes this study is the positioning of observations in the context of the political and social reality that creates ghetto schools. Relations between children, teachers, parents, and administrators have a much broader…

Offers a historical overview of the role of social reformers in the formation of the New York City public school system in the early twentieth century. Considers the attitudes, motivations, and concerns of this group of largely middle and upper class men and women who had little direct involvement with public schools. (DMM)

Reports a study of the social studies curriculum of the New York City Board of Education with the focus on curriculum innovation and implementation, with the investigation restricted to a district in which most children came from low income families and minority backgrounds; proposes curriculum development should be retained at a central level.…

A narrative taken from an oral history project being conducted on the Lower East Side in New York City by the Preservation Youth Project at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery. The narrator is a 76 year old former millinery worker who relates her life story in terms of the class struggle, unions, self-education, and the unique Yiddish…