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Download full textMassachusetts State Dept. of Education, Quincy. Bureau of Equal Educational Opportunity. – 1986
This report on urban education in Massachusetts deals specifically with issues of desegregation. In the first section, seven effective, desegregated school districts are profiled: Boston, Cambridge, Holyoke, Lowell, New Bedford, Springfield, and Worcester. Following this section is a paper on educational equity for linguistic minority students…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Enrollment Trends, Equal Education
Rutkowski, Edward, Ed. – Journal of the Midwest History of Educational Society, 1978
The papers in this document feature four themes: religion and education, the nature of childhood and its relationship to education, urban educational problems, and the character of educational journalism. Part 1 begins with "A Common Faith for the Common School? Religion and Education in Kansas, 1861-1900" (J. C. Carper) which compares…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Educational Change, Educational History, Government School Relationship
Caldwell, Jean – Equity and Choice, 1989
Describes the Family Math program for elementary school students and their families in Springfield (Massachusetts). Goals include the following: (1) increase minority parent participation; (2) overcome math anxiety; and (3) encourage mathematics participation. (FMW)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students
Demerath, Peter W. – 1994
This paper reports qualitative and quantitative data obtained about relationships between 27 students with special language needs or learning disabilities and their nondisabled peers (N=99) in four integrated eighth grade classes of an urban middle school in Massachusetts. The study involved approximately 120 hours of in-school observation over a…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Inclusive Schools, Intermediate Grades
