Described are the development, administrative problems, and improvements in a special half day program for gifted students from 19 schools in Chicago. Noted is the use of consultants as teaching staff, problems such as lack of funds for transporting pupils and funding cutbacks, and changes in student selection procedures. (DB)

The research presented in this paper is part of a larger study that focused on increasing elementary school girls' attitudes toward and achievement in science and mathematics. Teachers from inner-city Philadelphia (n=21) participated in the Sisters in Science Program during the 1997-98 school year. This report presents teachers' reflections and…

With the advent of site-based management, principals must respond to growing pressures to provide students and staff with a safe teaching and learning environment. This paper examines junior-high school principals' understanding of violence. The paper focuses on the context of violence within the principals' schools, the factors that influenced…

A survey questionnaire on aspects of the job that contributed to burnout received responses from 128 school-based administrators and 635 teachers in a large Western Canadian urban school district. Subjects identified work conditions which contributed to feelings of overextension and exhaustion, to negative attitudes and impersonal responses, and…

Not all of America's public schools have benefited from recent efforts to improve education, because the problems of schools and of their communities are deep and complex. By 2000, when one of every three pupils in the public schools will be nonwhite, America's major cities could become an educational Third World. To avoid a deepening crisis,…

On September 18th 2003, the director of the Human Creativity youth arts program at Central Falls High School in Central Falls, Rhode Island, and four of its youth leaders enter Lincoln Center in New York City. They are there to present their program's work at a national forum held by the Arts Education Partnership (AEP). The forum is one of three…

Due to the increasing achievement gap between schools of urban settings and their suburban counterparts, and in an environment where statewide testing that may begin to hinder the graduation of many urban students, there is a need to close the gap especially in the areas of Math and Science. Teachers in such environments face the daunting task of…

A shortage of teachers exists in many areas, and the severe under-representation of minorities in teacher preparation programs has exacerbated the problem of supplying urban schools with needed personnel. Post career military personnel represent a prospective pool of alternative teacher recruits to redress existing urban teacher shortages. Career…

This study sought to add to the evidence on predictable texts by asking two questions: (1) What type of reading do predictable texts produce? and (2) How do predictable texts influence sight vocabulary acquisition and decoding? Subjects, six black male students selected from a first-grade classroom in an urban setting, had minimal or no sight…

How the term urban and other terms related to it are defined can enhance the efficiency of research on urban education issues. A review of urban and related word uses reveals considerable variety in definitions. Since the aim of much research is to derive useful generalizations applicable to other similar groups, it is important to define the…

A study explored emergent readers' reconstruction of two story text types for evidence of cohesive harmony. Data came from a subset of 12 kindergarten children in 2 classes in an inner-city school. All of the children participated in a storybook reading program in which two types of texts were used: simple, beginning reader text and complex, trade…

This report reviews the results of a survey of teacher training programs in technology among 28 urban school systems in order to ascertain the current state of school computer use and teacher retraining. Results indicate that preparing students for the future presents particular problems for urban schools. With technology restructuring jobs and…

The urban school principal is education's most visible line administrator. The job is demanding, requiring highly developed administrative skills and is a position about which little has been written. Faculty from the University of Illinois at Chicago began this study of a sample of Chicago public school principals in early 1977, using…

To test the replicability of an earlier study of the informal relationships among school administrators, researchers interviewed 16 principals of schools in an urban district in the southwestern United States. The earlier study had used unstructured scheduled interviews with 28 principals in a small city and suburban district to discover grouping…

This paper presents a theoretical construct that can be used to describe the implementation process of school programs in terms of a multi-dimensional model. Focusing on the research process of the Urban Education Studies, which is devoted to the identification and study of educational programs which are beginning to make inroads for the…