Article describes the problems that student teachers encounter when entering the urban educational field and how they are able to cope with these problems. (ML)

Describes the Philadelphia High School Academies, vocational schools in the inner city that are jointly operated and funded by the public schools and local business and labor leaders. Discusses the program's growth and the reasons for its success in bringing inner city youth into the mainstream. (JOW)

A teacher reflects on the writing of his disadvantaged eighth grade students. (JL)

DESPITE THE BELIEF OF SOME EDUCATORS, PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS DO NOT CONTRIBUTE TO THE CONTINUING SEGREGATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN LARGE CITIES. DATA GATHERED BY A CATHOLIC SOURCE SHOW THAT CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN RACIALLY CHANGING NEIGHBORHOODS "HOLD" THEIR WHITE STUDENTS AND IN FACT ARE BETTER INTEGRATED THAN ADJACENT PUBLIC SCHOOLS. MANY NEGROES AND…

Urban changes such as population increase, shifts in population groups, suburban growth, and central city decay have produced special problems for the inner city college--de facto segregation, inadequate education programs, racial imbalance of employees, and discrimination in student participant activities. The attempts to prevent…

The development, for inner-city ghetto youth, of a child care model that functions within a family/neighborhood framework rather than from the "safety" of distant residential treatment centers, is essential to the goal of eliminating the fragmentation and inadequacy of such services and the continued disregard of the prerogatives and rights of…

Project Unique, developed by the Rochester public school system, assumed that an adequate program must relate to the larger environment within which the school functions and, hence, sought to work out a comprehensive approach to the problems of urban education. Its components aimed at: increasing community participation of inner city parents in…

The Michigan Education Association recommends a task-force approach as one of the solutions to increasing the acquisition of additional skills for all elementary teachers in education and communication skills. An inservice model was developed to be used primarily with inner-city elementary pupils, but the basic design is applicable for use with…

Colleges must devise procedures, says the author, to help under-prepared students, who have been newly admitted, to overcome their deficiencies in academic skills. (Author/RK)

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)

Contains a recommended reading list of primary and secondary sources of Afro-American literature for high school courses. (RD)

Chicago panel members discuss inner city youth and admission. Inferior public school education, lack of parent participation in educational processes, lack of awareness of opportunities and money, keep many potential college students from even applying. (CJ)