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Peer reviewedAscher, Carol – Urban Review, 1989
Reviews the literature on the efforts of school-college collaboration to increase the number of minority group students who enter and graduate from college. Concludes that these relationships have been largely self-serving, benefiting school and college personnel much more than the targeted disadvantaged students. (FMW)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Preparation, College School Cooperation, Cooperative Programs
Download full textFranklin, Kathy K.; Boggs, Kathy J.; Conners, Nicola A.; Crum, Cindy Bagwell; Nawarat, Piyaporn; Ramirez, Carmen T.; Trawick, Kathy C. – 1997
This qualitative study explored the evaluative criteria used by administrators at a southern, metropolitan university to define institutional effectiveness and to determine the congruency between those criteria and the institution's metropolitan mission. Four focus groups were conducted with 22 administrators (vice chancellors, associate and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy
Peer reviewedMarkus, Thomas A. – Paedagogica Historica, 1996
Articulates the ideological and social relationships reinforced by the spatial design of urban children's schools in the early 19th century. Describes the purpose and function of the four types of schools: Sunday, monitorial, infant, and workhouse. Includes numerous illustrations from a variety of sources. (MJP)
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Architecture, Classroom Design, Economically Disadvantaged
Blosser, Patricia E., Ed.; Helgeson, Stanley L., Ed. – Investigations in Science Education, 1984
Presented are abstracts and abstractors' analyses of seven studies related to science instruction and mathematics and three studies related to achievement. Analyses in the area of instruction are on studies of: teacher interventions in elementary science laboratory groups; variables accounting for success in an undergraduate science education…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Calculators, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedRoss, Jerrold – Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 1995
Maintains that most of the questions that have concerned arts educators have remained basically the same. Contends that issues of cultural pluralism have been added to these questions. Presents and discusses issues of art and music education in New York City and the role of action research. (CFR)
Descriptors: Action Research, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Change, Educational History
Oxman, Wendy G.; Michelli, Nicholas M. – 1984
Project THISTLE (Thinking Skills in Teaching and Learning) was developed by Montclair State College (New Jersey) faculty in collaboration with the Newark, New Jersey, public schools. The project is designed to improve the basic skills of urban college-bound high school students by working with their teachers in an integrated process of curriculum…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College School Cooperation, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development
Baecher, Richard E.; And Others – 1989
This report examines the correlates of successful social and educational strategies of a dropout prevention program for minority children in an urban school district. In 1986, Fordham University's Graduate School of Education and Social Services became partners with a heavily-populated minority public school district in New York City. This paper…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, College School Cooperation, Dropout Prevention
