Teachers, programs, and facilities suitable to the special needs and potentialities of inner city youngsters must be provided. (Author/MK)

This small booklet describes the Winchester Community School in New Haven, Connecticut. It begins by introducing and defining a new term, the "urbanvantaged" child. Winchester is dedicated to the development of this inner city child in a community school. Activities implemented by the school program include: (1) simultaneous kindergarten…

Article discusses the importance of teacher attitudes and cultural orientation in successfully teaching in an inner city community. (MM)

Describes the Cooperative Urban Teacher Education program, operated by the Midcontinent Regional Laboratory, a Kansas City-based research and development institution established in 1966, in the days of major Federal expenditures for education. (Author/JM)

An account of an assistant principal's efforts to assist new and inexperienced teachers to remain in education, focusing on solving the problems of 3 basic types of new teachers: (1) the scared to death, but tries to teach them anyway teacher, (2) the managerial efficiency teacher, and (3) the idealistic teacher. (EH)

Describes briefly the program in Wichita, Kansas, initiated by 11 liberal arts colleges in cooperation with the public and Catholic schools and Kansas State University to prepare teachers for work in urban areas. Includes a series of lessons designed to help students in teacher education programs to cope with their own fears and to help their…

A grant from The New World Foundation made possible a series of lectures during the academic year 1969-1970 on the theme "Urban Education in the 1970's." A number of the specialists who had participated in the first work conference were invited to deliver another lecture. Each was asked to take another look at urban education from the vantage of…

IN KEEPING WITH AMERICA'S CURRENT CONCERN FOR ITS BIG CITIES, THE CLASSICISTS, STIMULATED BY THE INAPPROPRIATENESS OF THE LATIN TEXTS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE AND THE CONSEQUENT DECLINE IN LATIN ENROLLMENT IN URBAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, ARE REALIZING THE NEED TO DEVELOP A COMPLETE SERIES OF TEXTBOOKS AND MATERIALS DESIGNED FOR INNER-CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL…

This paper examines the management of training programs for educators who are or will be working in inner-city schools. Four common patterns emerge from investigations of the program which have been effective in preparing personnel for inner-city schools. First, the programs featured a sound and explicit theoretical base, an analysis of the…

The contents of this handbook for teachers of inner-city children are organized in six sections. Part one, "Who is the inner-city child? discusses such topics as "thinking about differences," myths about the inner-city child, "thinking about the likenesses,""recognizing ethnic strengths,""adding to your knowledge," and "putting it all together."…