Immersion in life as they will find it is central to a program to prepare student teachers for the profession's toughest assignment. (Editor)

This book is primarily about the problems of preparing teachers for assignments to schools in low-income neighborhoods and is based on an extensive case study of a specific attempt to deal with these problems. Chapter 1 introduces some basic issues in the training of teachers for assignment to schools in low-income neighborhoods. Chapter 2…

Students of urban, commuter universities frequently make unlikely candidates for a team teaching situation in a black elementary school. Methods teachers at the University of Toledo, therefore, decided to hold classes at a multi-unit school in the Toledo ghetto. The objectives were twofold: to teach undergraduates how to team teach social studies,…

The survey reported here focuses on ascertaining if the preparation of teachers and administrators is adequate to meet the needs of minority and disadvantaged pupils, especially in urban schools. A survey was made of the 53 Ohio colleges of education through a questionnaire. Responses were received from 40 teacher training institutions in the…