Current mathematics reform policy conflicts with the political and social dilemmas facing math teachers in urban schools: math course tracking, fiscal inequities, and failure of traditional assessment to meet the needs of underserved children. Policy decisions must be based on an expansive view of equality. (SK)

New approaches to education for urban poor and minority students emerge from recent findings of cognitive psychology (teachers as facilitators of students constructing their own knowledge) and from awareness of the influence of students' culture on school performance, leading to adoption of culturally responsive classroom practices. (SK)

The Back on Track Program, a partnership among a Cincinnati middle school, Miami University, and Procter and Gamble, provided team teaching for at-risk students. In an adaptation, Bridge Builders, five teachers looped with seventh graders for 2 years with Miami student teachers' involvement. Improvements in achievement and social development…

Reviews the history of the ten year involvement of the Economic Development Council (composed of approximately three hundred corporations) with the New York City educational system. Discusses the involvement in two phases: the partnership phase which included a feasibility study and the renewal phase which employed organizational development.…