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Peer reviewedSmith, Calvert H. – Teachers College Record, 1972
Article discusses the importance of teacher attitudes and cultural orientation in successfully teaching in an inner city community. (MM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Inner City, Metropolitan Areas, Teacher Education
Dillingham, McKinley; Johnson, T. Bradford – Education for the Disadvantaged Child, 1973
Reports a study designed (1) to assess the self-concept of grade eight students and teacher attitudes at an upper grade center and (2) to relate student self concept and teachers' attitudes to pupil performance; 308 black eighth graders in Chicago participated as subjects. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Inner City, Secondary School Students
Peer reviewedCorley, Georgia B.; Lewis, Charles W. – Urban Education, 1975
In order to determine the impact of individualized instruction on academic achievements of low performing inner-city youth, thirty seventh grade pupils were given individualized instruction in an open classroom atmosphere--their first such experience; results are stated to indicate a dramatic increase in problem-solving performances. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Individualized Instruction, Inner City, Intervention
Passow, A. Harry, Ed. – 1971
A grant from The New World Foundation made possible a series of lectures during the academic year 1969-1970 on the theme "Urban Education in the 1970's." A number of the specialists who had participated in the first work conference were invited to deliver another lecture. Each was asked to take another look at urban education from the vantage of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Ghettos
Download full textMattai, P. Rudy – 1994
Project RICE (Responsive Inner City Education) prepared a cadre of 36 teachers drawn from majority and minority populations in 3 inner-city schools in Buffalo (New York) to complement mastery of subject matter with appropriate pedagogical styles. The project was designed to test the hypothesis that minority students in inner-city schools do not…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Inner City
Wisconsin Univ., Madison. Dept. of Educational Administration. – 1970
The purposes of the Institute--to heighten the self concept and achievement of Negro youth, and to improve school-community relations in racial ghettos--are discussed in an introduction, along with the rationale, philosophical orientations, and objectives. Additional preliminary information includes a discussion of the required planning and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Education, Black History, Black Students
Taylor, Derek B.; Fleming, Margaret – 1972
During the 1960-1970 school year, the Cleveland Public Schools began implementing a More Effective Schools (MES) Program in two elementary buildings. This report is the evaluation of the third year of operation of the program (1971-72 school year). The MES Program was designed to attack the poor achievement patterns of inner-city children through…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Elementary School Students, Individualized Instruction
