Criticism of teachers who work among the poor is analyzed. (CK)

Argues that the problems of urban education can be solved by improving the quality of teaching, and presents a list of teacher behaviors and attitudes that are indicative of good teaching. (JG)

Gentle teaching, empowering children growing up amid poverty and violence, is the only alternative to ineffective coercive teaching. "Decent" teachers are not judgmental, moralistic, or easily shocked; they listen, recognize their biases, are culturally competent, and do not seek to fulfill power needs. (SK)

Using an ethnographic approach the study describes the curricula that veteran urban high school special educators use in self-contained special education classrooms with majority Blacks and Latinos. The findings show that the teachers routinely exposed students to elementary level curricula and to material that was rife with racist images of…

This study explores urban teachers' perception of their mentoring experience in an alternative urban teacher education program. Fifteen teachers who had been teaching in urban schools for at least three years participated in focus groups. The findings support the need for continuing the development of new teachers through utilizing mentors in the…

Based on a study which examined the careers of Black and White inner-city teachers, this article reports on findings relative to attitudes and beliefs and to teacher behaviors as they relate to student relations. (CM)

This analysis of the Follow Through program as attempted in Wilmington suggests that the implementation of the experimental treatment is problematic at best, that quantitative analysis of the national results of this quasi-experimental program may provide us with information that is of limited validity and utility, and that the call to treat…

The research presented in this paper is part of a larger study that focused on increasing elementary school girls' attitudes toward and achievement in science and mathematics. Teachers from inner-city Philadelphia (n=21) participated in the Sisters in Science Program during the 1997-98 school year. This report presents teachers' reflections and…

The recognition of some difficulties in ghetto education does not mean that efforts are not being made to improve schools or that all teachers are ineffectual or that all students are unreceptive. But many variables can affect ghetto education and of prime significance is the teacher student relationship. (Author)

Tells the story of two schools involved in an education reform initiative in a large, urban district. Argues that teachers who see themselves as learners create a supportive environment and are much better prepared for the massive challenges, the continual setbacks, and the incremental successes that enduring educational reform entails. (SR)

Discusses the results of a survey of Chicago teachers. (IRT)

A survey questionnaire on aspects of the job that contributed to burnout received responses from 128 school-based administrators and 635 teachers in a large Western Canadian urban school district. Subjects identified work conditions which contributed to feelings of overextension and exhaustion, to negative attitudes and impersonal responses, and…