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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
Ramsey, Wallace Z. – 1969
The objectives of this survey were (1) the examination of five major inner-city reading programs, (2) consultation with school officials in those cities concerning the nature of a training program in reading, (3) the designing of a reading teacher education program for the inner city, and (4) the publication of the findings. Procedures used in the…
Descriptors: Black Students, De Facto Segregation, Disadvantaged Youth, Inner City
Ahern, John – 1970
Students of urban, commuter universities frequently make unlikely candidates for a team teaching situation in a black elementary school. Methods teachers at the University of Toledo, therefore, decided to hold classes at a multi-unit school in the Toledo ghetto. The objectives were twofold: to teach undergraduates how to team teach social studies,…
Descriptors: Black Students, Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Silver, Catherine Bodard – 1973
This book deals with aspects of a special case in the crisis of urban education, in which blacks are central both as teachers and students, but it also attempts to consider aspects of the more general issues as well. It reports research on the behavior and attitudes of black elementary-school teachers in Washington, D.C. That city's system is in…
Descriptors: Black Students, Black Teachers, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students
Koritz, Douglas, Ed.; And Others – 1995
Selected papers are presented from a national conference on urban issues. They are: (1) "Collaboration as a Social Process: Inter-Institutional Cooperation and Educational Change" (Charles F. Underwood and Hardy T. Frye); (2) "Mobilizing the Village To Educate the Child" (Valerie Maholmes); (3) "Pathways to Teaching: An Urban Teacher Licensure…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Students, Cooperation, Disadvantaged Youth
Epps, Edgar G. – 1974
Parents and professional educators agree that reading competence is a necessary prerequisite for successful achievement in nearly all other aspects of the elementary and secondary school curriculum. Successful school achievement is also seen as necessary for later occupational and economic achievement. It is commonly believed that reading failure…
Descriptors: Black Students, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Problems