This second edition updates material in the first edition for another decade to 1990 and responds to criticisms of findings in the first edition. This book investigates teaching practices before, during, and after 20th-century reform efforts aimed at changing what teachers routinely do. Patterns of stability and change over a 100-year period are…

This 1993 annual report describes the Urban Gateways' efforts to bring creative and performing arts into the schools. Designed to enhance school-community relations and increase participation in the arts, Urban Gateways advocates arts experiences as a way to develop the creativity, expressiveness, self-confidence, and conceptual and…

This special serial issue is based on the proceedings of an invitational conference on "Next Steps in Inner-City Education" held in Racine (Wisconsin) in October 1995. The three articles in this publication attempt to offer effective and practical recommendations for educational practitioners and policy makers who seek to transform the country's…

This book focuses on research conducted in the last 20 years that shows what urban teachers can do to add new knowledge and skills to their repertoire of teaching so that students can increase their own achievement. Dedicated to the idea that all children can learn, it provides hundreds of practical educational strategies. Some approaches that are…

To determine the effects of teacher training on day caregivers' instructional methods and to examine children's learning behaviors during training, a study was conducted of 5 African-American caregivers and 60 children from low income families in an urban day care center. The caregivers participated over a 2-year period in the W. E. Think training…

A hearing was held before the Subcommittee on Empowerment of the House Committee on Small Business to build a record of a lot of things that are working in urban education in high risk zones. In his opening remarks, Representative Souder (Indiana) noted that there is no question but that the best way to combat unemployment and the problems that…

Kindergarten Plus, a program for disabled and non-disabled kindergarten students in an integrated classroom setting, was implemented in 5 New York City classrooms serving 99 kindergartners. The program's implementation and student outcomes were evaluated at the end of the first year. Classroom observation and staff interviews revealed that the…

In this research, 103 Hispanic junior high school students were instructed using the Kumon Mathematical Method. Instruction took place 1 hour per day, 5 days a week in a public school setting. Instruction extended over an eight month period. Student subjects were pretested and posttested on the Mathematics batteries of the California Achievement…

Reading improvement programs that have focused on additional staff for teaching, tutoring, and counseling; prescriptive, self-paced learning methods; unstructured open-education strategies; and intensive reading have often been successful in small towns and middle sized cities, but none has made a major impact on the reading achievement of…

The document is introduced by a summary of goals, activities, participants and other aspects of the institute. Chapter two, Background of Urban Adults, presents highlights of five lectures: African Heritage; Discovering Negroes in American History; Development of Urban Communities; Motivational Characteristics and Values of Urban Adults; and…

The selected bibliography on American Indian and Mexican American children in urban schools contains abstracts of 36 documents. Two themes in the writings about these minority groups are noted. One trend stresses concern about assimilation and the acculturation process, while another theme stresses the need for bilingual schooling. (NH)

Four Intensive Reading Instructional Teams (IRITs) consisting of a reading consultant, two master teachers, and a clerk typist provided intensive compensatory reading instruction for more than 500 Hartford third, fourth, and fifth grade students during the 1971-72 school year. The approach of the IRITs was geared to the concept of individualized…

This report describes the main field test of Minicourse 18: Teaching Reading as Decoding. The purposes of the main field test were: (1) to evaluate the effects of the course on the participating teachers, (2) to evaluate four reteach treatments on teacher skill acquisition, (3) to compare scores for central city and suburban teachers, and (4) to…

Examines the history, philosophy, methods, and operations of the Mary McLeod Bethune Institute, an Afrocentric supplementary Saturday elementary school in Los Angeles (California). Qualitative data show the role this enrichment plays in developing socially active and capable African American youth through the study of African American culture and…

Examined effectiveness of a teacher education program emphasizing skills and knowledge needed in multicultural, multilingual urban middle school settings. Found that candidates were already culturally/linguistically sensitive, and became more so during the program; felt prepared to meet student needs; and still had difficulty envisioning the…