This pamphlet notes the commitment of the National Education Association (NEA) to human rights and equal opportunity. Briefly presented are several programs and activities of NEA in these areas. A bibliography of relevant NEA publications is included. (NH)

These collected papers and reports, many taken from the Professional Education Seminar at the University of Northern Iowa, concentrate on the failure of inner-city education. A number of essays attempt to analyze the role of teachers, administrators, and communities in the failure of inner-city education. Also, there are several field reports on…

This collection of essays contains magazine and journal articles that were published in 1969-70. Although the primary function of these essays is to help educators keep up with the recent literature in the field, the volume is divided into three parts so that one or more parts may be used to fulfill local needs and supplement course reading lists.…

A three-part program investigated the use of computers at an inner-city high school. An attempt was made to introduce a digital computer for instructional purposes at the high school. A single portable teletype terminal and a simple programing language, BASIC, were used. It was found that a wide variety of students could benefit from this…

The major objective of this project was to develop a new social studies curriculum for the inner city. Specific needs were to be addressed in developing the new social studies: the need to be an agent for developing the intellectual skills necessary for citizens to assimilate and process information so that they can better aid in determining…

The Remedial Reading Laboratories program was designed to improve the reading achievement of disadvantaged students in grades four through 12 and thereby enable them to profit from regular classroom instruction. The program also aimed at improving the students' self-esteem and self-confidence. In 1969-70 classes were offered to over 1,000…

During Public School (PS) 115's 1969-70 academic year, a first-grade class of 27 disadvantaged, inner city youngsters received a special language arts program entitled Alpha One. Alpha One is a commercial initial reading program designed to teach first grade children to read and write sentences containing words of one, two and three syllables, and…

This study examines the relationship between the organizational structure of multi-unit community college districts and the performance of urban campuses in serving disadvantaged students. Emphasis is on the expanding functions and changing structure of urban community colleges, the relationship between district office and district colleges, and…

Relates various experiences that illustrate one teacher's way of dealing with teaching problems common in inner-city schools. (MLH)

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)

Deals with inner city youth and a program for developing flexible thinking. (SB)

A critique of the reification of child-centred education arguing that this ideology is found in its purest form in the colleges of education which are ill-equipped ideologically and organizationally for the preparation of teachers for inner-city schools. (Author/JM)

Presents information regarding the qualifications of teachers, their identification with the problems of inner-city schools, and their commitments to teaching in the inner-city. (JM)