Presented is a study of 16 female elementary teachers designed to provide insight into options for in-service education programs dealing with urban teachers and their unique needs. Significant positive relationships between science teachers' attitudes and beliefs about physical science are reported. (Author/CW)

This study examined the perceptions of 249 trainees in graduate teacher education courses, both regular and special education, concerning the frequency and importance of teaching methods modeled in their professional training. Results indicated that most trainees had experienced little variety in instructional practices and that they tended to…

A broad range of school, home, societal, and community-based interventions have been tried for at-risk students. Inner-city teachers (N=56) rated the effectiveness of interventions directed toward minimizing risks that students confront. Early-intervention programs, integrated services, family-based interventions, and welfare and child-protection…

Investigates the use of faculty book clubs as a way to introduce middle school teachers to acclaimed adolescent literature in hopes that they might incorporate the literature read into their language arts and social studies classes. Finds that such clubs are an excellent way to provide staff development in the area of adolescent literature for…

A study compared two groups of children in an urban elementary school who were unready for second grade at the conclusion of first grade. A group of 15 students was retained in first grade while another group of 45 students was promoted to second grade. The California Achievement Test was used to measure the reading ability of both groups at the…

Presents an attitude scale designed to distinguish the prospective teacher with a positive attitude toward urban teaching from the teacher with a negative attitude. (Author)

This report presents the results of a survey of Seattle, Washington teachers and administrators on desegregation planning and implementation. In the first section an assessment of district sponsored human relations courses and other staff development activities by participating teachers and administrators is provided. The second and third sections…

A description is given of a study to determine whether the attitudes of white middle class student teachers toward children speaking Black dialect could be changed positively and their listening comprehension improved. In a special program conducted by a teacher center a group of student teachers were exposed to brief intensive training in…

An innovative educational program in Pennsylvania allows students the maximum amount of freedom possible in a learning situation and places emphasis on motivation rather than rote learning. (CK)

A collaborative study examined early childhood teachers' philosophies and practices as they pertained to developmentally appropriate practices and their influence on inner-city early childhood settings. Data were collected by recording conversations among five teachers. Excerpts indicate agreement over interrelated developmental areas, curriculum,…

This study uses data from 171 teachers at eight inner-city elementary and middle schools in Baltimore to examine general patterns and connections between teacher attitudes about parent involvement, school programs, and the actual practices that teachers use. These patterns are examined at different academic levels, in different academic subjects,…

Those who teach language arts to black children have many opportunities and face many challenges as they work to help Afro-American children learn standard English. Among the opportunities are: (1) to help black students retain the ways of using language that are unique to their culture, while at the same time helping them to acquire the language…

The findings in this paper raise questions about the validity of educational assumptions underlying efforts to reform "bureaucratic dysfunctions" in the schools. Although specific reforms are not examined, there is a tenuous connection between bureaucratic organization of schools and the kinds of teacher attitudes toward clients so often cited as…

Last year the author reported on a visit of British educationists to New York city (EJ 153 134). Here he describes the impressions of a return party of American teachers and administrators, who have just spent two weeks looking at schools in the multi-racial areas of Birmingham and London. (Editor/RK)

Examines the relationships between learning climate, open instructional areas, instructional modes, student achievement, and similar variables. (IRT)