To prepare prospective elementary teachers for inner-city schools, this program was initiated at the University of Minnesota. Background knowledge concerning the family, the child, and the community gives the student teachers an understanding of the sources of problems encountered in inner-city classrooms. Resource people from the community and…

The idea for a program which would enable interested and capable inner-city residents to enter a performance-oriented teacher preparation program culminating in an undergraduate degree and teacher certification was suggested and developed by representatives of two privately operated community schools in the Roxbury section of Boston, the New…

A major crisis facing urban education is the inability of predominantly white, middle-class college students to deal with the realities of the urban primary school. A program that brings education majors into the urban school is described. The idea of partnership is the guiding principle of this program, in which college students, local teachers…

This paper examines the management of training programs for educators who are or will be working in inner-city schools. Four common patterns emerge from investigations of the program which have been effective in preparing personnel for inner-city schools. First, the programs featured a sound and explicit theoretical base, an analysis of the…

The Cooperative Urban Teacher Education program is designed to train teachers for effective teaching in inner-city schools. CUTE requires a cooperative effort between the participating college or university and a public school system. The program is designed to replace the regular student teaching program for those students expressing an interest…

A 4-year case study was done of a partnership program between the Houston (Texas) Independent School District and Texas A&M University's College of Education (College Station) designed to prepare student teachers for work in inner-city public schools. The two institutions worked together through four collaborative decision-making councils to…