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Future Teacher, 1997
Articles in this theme issue explore pathways into teaching, focusing on programs that recruit future teachers, and specifically on programs that target minority future teachers. "Pathways to Teaching: Building Quality and Diversity in America's Schools" by Segun Eubanks introduces a number of programs that are drawing from populations…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Seabrook, Luther W. – 1997
More and more frequently, poor families are described in pathological terms. The emphasis is on the deficits that interfere with the education of poor children, rather than the strengths that they can bring to schooling. A focus on the devastating effects of poverty may lead to the belief that poor children are so disadvantaged that nothing can be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Koritz, Douglas, Ed.; And Others – 1995
Selected papers are presented from a national conference on urban issues. They are: (1) "Collaboration as a Social Process: Inter-Institutional Cooperation and Educational Change" (Charles F. Underwood and Hardy T. Frye); (2) "Mobilizing the Village To Educate the Child" (Valerie Maholmes); (3) "Pathways to Teaching: An Urban Teacher Licensure…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Students, Cooperation, Disadvantaged Youth
Stallings, Jane – 1992
A 4-year case study was done of a partnership program between the Houston (Texas) Independent School District and Texas A&M University's College of Education (College Station) designed to prepare student teachers for work in inner-city public schools. The two institutions worked together through four collaborative decision-making councils to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College School Cooperation, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
Haggett, William F. – 1975
The Philadelphia Urban Education Network Project is a staff development project that deals with the problems of the urban teacher and the needs of the urban students. Project activities include workshops, conferences, open houses, and teacher exchanges, all of which involve project participants. Staff development workshops are held to aid teachers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Involvement, Educationally Disadvantaged, Humanistic Education
Clothier, Grant M.; Lawson, James H. – 1969
One third of this report on the Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory's Cooperative Urban Teacher Education (CUTE) Program is a description of background information including origins, evolution, organization, structure, and formulation of the concepts used. CUTE is designed to improve urban teaching through helping the teacher to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Innovation