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Direct linkNoguera, Pedro A. – Teachers College Press, 2003
What will it take for urban schools to achieve the kind of academic performance required by new state and national educational standards? How can classroom teachers in city schools help to close the achievement gap? What can restore public confidence in public schools? Pedro Noguera argues that higher standards and more tests, by themselves, will…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academic Achievement, Urban Teaching, Public Schools
Download full textDyson, Anne Haas; And Others – 1997
This book reports on conversations in which elementary schoolteachers--who have taught in urban settings for an average of 20 years each--reflect on their professional work. The conversations in the book testify to the teachers' ability to engage young people in active learning--and their stories of teaching and learning verify that difference…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Schools, Language Arts
