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Global Perspectives on Issues and Solutions in Urban Education. Contemporary Perspectives on Access, Equity, and Achievement
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Robinson, Petra A., Ed.; Allen-Handy, Ayana, Ed.; Bryant, Amber, Ed.; Lewis, Chance W., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2019
In 2014, The Urban Education Collaborative at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte hosted its first biennial International Conference on Urban Education (ICUE) in Montego Bay, Jamaica. In 2016, the second hosting of the conference took place in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Additionally, in 2018, the third hosting of the conference took place in…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, 21st Century Skills
Disaffected Boys and the Achievement Gap: "The Wallpaper Effect" and What Is Hidden by a Focus on School Results
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Nuttall, Amanda; Doherty, Jonathan – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2014
This article reports on a teacher inquiry project in a primary school that serves disadvantaged communities on the outskirts of a de-industrialised city in the north of England. Of particular concern is a small group of white British boys in receipt of free school meals, who are identified by the school as disaffected and as a consequence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Males, Achievement Gap
Educational Equity in Poor Urban Contexts--Exploring Issues of Place/Space and Young People's Identity and Agency
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Raffo, Carlo – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2011
An enduring concern for educational policy in many affluent countries is the endemic nature of educational inequalities that are predominately located in poor urban contexts. Given the inabilities of school reform "per se" to deal with these inequalities, the paper focuses on issues of scarcity and spatial processes that are implicated…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Urban Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Urban Youth
Conversation-Work with Primary School Children
Mowat, John – Multiracial School, 1973
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Schools, Field Trips, Immigrants
The E. P. A. Community School
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Midwinter, Eric – Urban Education, 1973
Describes the intervention strategies adopted in the Liverpool Priority Project and presents a case for closer relationships between education with the social, economic, and political institutions of the neighborhood in which the community school could form the integrating hub. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Education, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Mathematical Enrichment: An Investigation with Disadvantaged Infants' School Children
Choat, Ernest – London Educational Review, 1973
The aim of this project--carried out by teachers, students and their college tutors in an Inner London Educational Priority Area--was to see whether lack of experience significantly impeded disadvantaged children in forming mathematical concepts, and to assess how far enrichment activities can compensate these children. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience
Bucking the Trends: Promoting Successful Urban Education.
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Mortimore, Peter – 1991
The main trends in urban education, particularly in England and the United Kingdom, are reviewed and analysed, along with descriptions of a series of projects and interventions. In particular, the paper: reviews the relevant research evidence about the current state of urban education; considers the scope for change; reports on worthwhile…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment