Explored how the discourse of child-centered pedagogy both shapes and limits how teachers talk about issues of social difference in their teaching practice through the experiences of four inner-city elementary school teachers in Canada. Considers the concept of the child as a unique individual and the teacher as a neutral change agent in relation…

Suggests some ideas for improving the teaching of math and discusses critically the role of the administrator in developing a successful mathematics program on the basis of an informal interview survey of 10 elementary school principals and 20 classroom teachers, two from each school of the ten principals. (JM)

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…

The Preface Plan described in this report represents the first effort of a metropolitan school system to provide a concentrated relevant training program for new inner city staff that begins after being hired but prior to the assumption of teaching duties. The recent project in which it was field-tested was supported by a federal contract from the…

Project RICE (Responsive Inner City Education) prepared a cadre of 36 teachers drawn from majority and minority populations in 3 inner-city schools in Buffalo (New York) to complement mastery of subject matter with appropriate pedagogical styles. The project was designed to test the hypothesis that minority students in inner-city schools do not…

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…