Chicago's Metro High curriculum is the city; its learning laboratory is the community; and its lesson is freedom, choice, and responsibility. (Author)

Problems in urban education stem from problems in urban living. (MF)

Funding cutbacks affecting San Jose (California) High School have severely reduced the school personnel adequately prepared for educating in the inner city. Concentration on legally required basics has forced elimination of classes and programs appealing to student interests and needs, leading to disciplinary and attendance problems. (PGD)

A review of the literature and a discussion with experts provided the data supporting 12 generalizations about success factors in urban elementary schools. Three clusters were particularly important: leadership, teaching personnel, and curriculum and instruction. (IRT)

Criticizes both the central administration and the teacher union approaches to education reform in New York City and offers an alternative model that places the teacher in control and emphasizes the matching of teaching methods with the cognitive styles of students. (IRT)

Reports on what researchers discovered in their study of five urban school districts that were labeled "innovative." Provides a conceptual framework that takes into account five factors that seemed critical to a district's success or failure in implementing change. (Author/IRT)

Principal describes efforts to divide a large urban high school into five small schools. Finds considerable gap between the theory and practice of school redesign. Reflects on the dilemmas and collisions between theory and practice encountered when dealing with the students, the faculty, the parents, the central office, and the school committee.…

Examination of data from 30 large urban school districts and site visits to several of these cities reveal many successful programs and a deepening concern for needs not well-served by traditional schooling. Some of these needs and programs are presented. (Author/IRT)

In order to study man with any hope of accuracy, the anthropologist must overcome his own ethnocentrism and learn that he must not intervene in the affairs of a people while studying them. The critics of education, as well as educators, should learn how to engage in this process. (Author/JN)

Describes the Hartford, Connecticut, open education program -- possibly the largest urban program of its kind in the country. (Author)

Two educators report their initial reactions to the Parkway Program in Philadelphia. (MF)

Evander Childs High School and Morris High School are two of the largest and most challenged secondary schools in the Bronx. Despite decades of political handwringing, many attempts at school reform, an array of corporate and community partner programs, and efforts to recruit highly qualified faculties for the long term, many of the students in…

Reexamines Coleman's research findings that support the theory of white flight. (IRT)

Reports on a study of 50 urban and 50 rural Indiana districts covering school district characteristics, liability actions against either the school district or professional personnel, liability insurance coverage, employment of legal counsel and fees paid, and opinions of respondents regarding the potential impact of educational malpractice…