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Ngware, Moses W.; Oketch, Moses; Ezeh, Alex C. – Education and Urban Society, 2011
This article examines the quality of primary school inputs in urban settlements with a view to understand how it sheds light on benchmarks of education quality indicators in Kenya. Data from a school survey that involved 83 primary schools collected in 2005 were used. The data set contains information on school quality characteristics of various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Primary Education, Educational Quality, Educational Change
Harnischfeger, Annegret; Wiley, David E. – Educational Technology, 1978
A study of time allocation in urban primary-school settings. (RAO)
Descriptors: Primary Education, Program Length, Scheduling, School Schedules
Morrow, Lesley M.; And Others – 1993
A literature-based reading program was introduced to 98 students in 5 second-grade classrooms in an urban school district with a socioeconomic status ranging from middle class to disadvantaged. Students were primarily African American or Hispanic. Of the total, 22% had previously been classified as "at risk" as determined by state regulations. The…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Cooperative Learning, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Tartter, Vivien C. – 1996
In each of 3 years, 20 City College of New York undergraduates from New York City public inner city school backgrounds read to and mentored individual second graders in a Harlem public school in a program supported by the Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). Supporting academic experience aimed to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, College School Cooperation, College Students, Elementary School Students
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Sammons, Pam; And Others – Educational Studies, 1996
Utilizes questionnaires to examine the various approaches to assessment used by inner city London, primary grade teachers. Specifically investigates assessment in English, mathematics, and science. Discovers a wide variety of approaches, both formal and informal. Discusses these findings in light of recent policy developments. (MJP)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Educational Practices