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

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

Author describes the Cooperative Urban Teacher Education Program (CUTE), developed by the Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory in Kansas City, Missouri, to prepare effective teachers for inner city schools. (CB)

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…

This booklet is a nontechnical summary of an extensive sociological investigation of the Teacher Corps, which was restricted to 10 universities and 42 schools. Data drawn from observation, questionnaires, and interviews with teachers, professors, and interns are used to present a composite picture of the program. The document includes a history of…

These are the forms used by the Project to control the distribution of instructional materials. The resources listed here are intended for use with the 43 social studies units developed by the Project described in SP 007 050 through SP 007 092. They include: books, pictures and study prints, maps and globes, records, filmstrips, games, free…

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)

Explored how the discourse of child-centered pedagogy both shapes and limits how teachers talk about issues of social difference in their teaching practice through the experiences of four inner-city elementary school teachers in Canada. Considers the concept of the child as a unique individual and the teacher as a neutral change agent in relation…

Reports a study designed (1) to assess the self-concept of grade eight students and teacher attitudes at an upper grade center and (2) to relate student self concept and teachers' attitudes to pupil performance; 308 black eighth graders in Chicago participated as subjects. (Author/JM)

Describes the teacher-training program at the Urban Institute of Essex County College in New Jersey which enlists people interested in tackling the problems of the inner city. (GB)