Describes a program at Northern Illinois University which teaches communication skills in order to aid minority students in surviving the college curriculum. (DD)

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)

Many college students complain that the education they are receiving is irrelevant. Colleges and universities ought to be intellectual centers rather than academic factories that teach students facts that they could learn by themselves. (CK)

Teacher educators can become more active in urban schooling by: (1) recognizing that recent historical events have changed the forms of urban schooling; (2) accepting the basic differences in ideology between people in urban schools and those in colleges of education; and (3) reorganizing the priorities of teacher education programs. (JN)

Reprints a 1988 article from this journal on the social world as a factor that influences the choices that young writers make in an urban primary classroom setting. Updates the article with an Afterword commenting on the earlier writing and discussing other more complex influences. (SR)

Federally proposed educational reform recommendations such as those in "America 2000" are examined for their impact on urban special education. Areas discussed include curriculum reforms, preschool education for at-risk youth, graduation rates, national achievement testing, drug-free environment, parental choice of schools, alternative…

Zeichner, a teacher educator specializing in multicultural and moral education, discusses his educational background and his continuous efforts to raise the issues of equity and social justice to students preparing to become teachers. He explains the importance of reflective teaching and action research which emphasize respect for the teacher.…

Describes two assignments that attempt to reconcile the history of minority high school and college students in Flint, Michigan. States that the first assignment is a profile paper--an interview of someone in the community. Explains that the second exercise encourages students to see and use their world and their words as text. (PA)

Argues that during the late-nineteenth century, when teachers became de-skilled and women's access to top administration became limited, female spaces and social organizations emerged that were conducive to long service and career advancement at the low echelons of the bureaucracy. Focuses on a social history of teachers in Providence, Rhode…

Defining "community literacy" as literate acts that could yoke community action with intercultural education, strategic thinking and problem solving, and with observation-based research and theory building, this paper articulates this "generative and tension-filled" vision of community literacy. The paper begins by examining…

This annotated bibliography provides references to representative materials on educational history in the St. Louis City and Suburban Areas (Missouri). The bibliography includes books, theses, dissertations, pamphlets, periodical articles, reports, and files. Each entry cites the author, the title, facts of publication, and location of entry, and…

Many US colleges and universities, including some in urban settings, are apparently less concerned with urban problems today than they were a third of a century ago. There is a growing need for a new kind of university that would aggressively approach city problems, such as an urban-grant university. This institution would become directly involved…

The positions expressed reflect several perspectives on the university-urban district cooperative leadership program carried out by Pennsylvania State University and the Philadelphia school district. The statements are made by students now holding positions as high school assistant principal, elementary principal, elementary assistant principal,…

The papers delivered at this meeting of the AASCU fell in the following categories: (1) Higher Education for the 70's, with a long paper by Paul Woodring, and brief statements by eight other speakers; (2) State Colleges and Universities in the 70's, with papers by E. Alden Dunham, "Colleges and the Forgotten Americans, A Profile of State Colleges…

Describes the Liberal Arts Studies (LAS) Program at Medgar Evers College (New York), which successfully merges basic skills and liberal arts education. Each LAS course is considered part of the foundation for a specific professional studies program, while providing knowledge and abilities that contribute to lifelong learning. (DMM)