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Training Administrators and Teachers for Urban Schools: Some Outrageous Proposals
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Grambs, Jean D. – Urban Review, 1972
Argues that most teacher education faculties are not geared for educating their clientele for urban systems. Offers some suggestions as to what has to be done before the situation can be improved. (RJ)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Selection, Educational Change, Inservice Education
The Newark Teachers' Strike
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Barbaro, Fred – Urban Review, 1972
Descriptors: Arbitration, Black Community, Community Control, Racial Relations
Are Effective or Meritorious Schools Meretricious?
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Stephenson, Robert S.; Levine, Daniel U. – Urban Review, 1987
Data on achievement gains in urban schools were analyzed to identify those schools with achievement consistently higher or lower than schools with similar characteristics. Only one school showed unusually high achievement gains. Efforts to identify and reward schools based on achievement may be erroneous and may decrease morale. (Author/VM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
Program Profile: A 7-Year Program to Prepare Talented Youths for College
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Ikeda, K.; And Others – Urban Review, 1972
Discusses the decisions made in the development of a pre-college program to provide special educational opportunities to talented youths who, because of limiting economic and social forces, would not normally enter college or earn degrees. (RJ)
Descriptors: Academic Education, College Bound Students, College Preparation, College School Cooperation
Waldorf Education in an Inner-City Public School.
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McDermott, Ray; And Others – Urban Review, 1996
Reports on the achievement of the first Waldorf public elementary school in Milwaukee (Wisconsin). Early experience indicates that Waldorf pedagogy, with its emphasis on the natural rhythms of everyday life, is an effective model for predominantly African American children in an inner city. (SLD)
Descriptors: Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Environment, Elementary Education
Research on Classroom and School Effectiveness and Its Implications for Improving Big City Schools.
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Levine, Daniel U.; Ornstein, Allan C. – Urban Review, 1989
Summarizes major findings and implications from research on the characteristics of effective classrooms and on characteristics that distinguish schools that have unusually high student achievement from those that enroll similar groups of students with much lower achievement. Discusses how these findings relate to improving achievement in city…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Educational Environment, Effective Schools Research
Urban Abstraction in a Central City High School.
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Bettis, Pamela J. – Urban Review, 1996
A qualitative case study explored the perceptions of 37 urban secondary school students and 12 teachers about their school and community. Teachers and students worked in a landscape characterized as one of "urban abstraction," a term that helps explain the complex and contradictory fabric of current urban life. (SLD)
Descriptors: Alienation, Apathy, Case Studies, Cultural Isolation
"The Environment": Power, Pedagogy, and American Urban Schooling.
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Hayward, Clarissa – Urban Review, 1999
Conducted observations in urban and suburban schools, arguing that critical theorists should more closely examine differential structural constraints on pedagogical choice. Urban teachers made pedagogic choices that reinforced social hierarchies (partly to help students manage urban environmental risks). Changing the role of power in urban public…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Decision Making, Discipline