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Download full textLeathersood, Darnell; Payne, Charles – Grantee Submission, 2016
This review examines four books that may offer some insight into what the discussion about educational policy, reform, and performance may look like after the era of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Collectively, "The Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling" by Jal Mehta,…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Policy
Direct linkDutro, Elizabeth – Research in the Teaching of English, 2010
In this article, I present a qualitative analysis of third graders' experiences with a unit from their district-mandated commercial reading curriculum in which the children made strong connections between a fictional account of a Depression-era farm family's economic hardships and their own 21st century lives in a city with one of the highest…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Material Selection, Elementary School Curriculum, Curriculum Implementation
Peer reviewedUchitelle, Susan – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2000
South Africa and the United States face similar problems: teachers' inadequacies in educating an increasingly diverse population; a culture of poverty undermining public support; urban decay and declining tax bases; insufficient resources; totally inadequate school facilities; and unrealistic expectations, considering allotted resources, faculty,…
Descriptors: Democracy, Desegregation Effects, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education
Steinberg, James B., Ed.; And Others – 1992
This volume presents 13 essays on urban problems in the United States, particularly in Los Angeles (California) following the 1992 riots, and policy options for the future. Part 1 addresses policies of the past three decades; Part 2 looks at children, youth, and families; Part 3 discusses crime and criminal justice; and Part 4 examines public…
Descriptors: Children, Correctional Rehabilitation, Crime, Drug Abuse
Vail, Kathleen – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2004
Aimed at eliminating the barriers to learning wrought about by poverty, Minneapolis and other urban school districts educate a substantial portion of poor and disadvantaged children and go nearly anywhere to hold parenting classes, homeless shelters, neonatal care units, high schools, and even jails. This article details the early childhood…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Urban Education, Early Childhood Education, School Districts
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1872
The report provides abstracted reports from state, territorial, and city school officers. Information is also given on Indian education, educational conventions and institutes, education of the deaf and dumb, and education of the blind, as well as an annual review of foreign education. Special articles discuss education in the Hawaiian Islands,…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Special Education, Deafness, Blindness
