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Takanishi, Ruby – 1976
This paper (Part I of a presentation titled "Early Childhood Education in Urban America") provides information primarily for non-Americans interested in early education as it is related to the management of educational change. The focus is on policy making in early childhood education from a historical perspective, covering the years 1933-1976.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Education, Child Caregivers, Compensatory Education
Jayatilleke, Raja, Comp. – 1976
This is the first of a series of Capsule Bibliographies on current issues in urban and minority education. It is a selection from a computer search using suitable descriptors matched against a standard Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse profile for urban and minority concepts. Such descriptors (subject headings) as…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Age Grade Placement, Annotated Bibliographies, Classification
Jayatilleke, Raja, Comp. – 1976
This is the fifth of a series of Capsule Bibliographies on current issues in urban and minority education. It is a selection from a computer search using suitable descriptors matched against a standard Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse profile for urban and minority concepts. Such descriptors (subject headings) as…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Black Colleges, College Admission, College Bound Students
Smith, Abigail – Teach For America, 2005
There is growing consensus among educators and policy makers that the gap in academic outcomes that exists along socio-economic and racial lines is the most pressing educational challenge of the day. Given their daily work teaching in public schools in the nation's lowest-income urban and rural communities, Teach For America teachers--or "corps…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Surveys, Equal Education, Public Education
Shaul, Marnie S. – 2002
This is a report of a study by the U.S. General Accounting Office for the U.S. Congress. Using data from the 2000-01 school year, the study focused on per-pupil spending, factors influencing spending, and other similarities and differences among selected high-poverty inner-city elementary schools and selected suburban elementary schools. From 42…
Descriptors: Costs, Educational Finance, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools
Nakayama, Shuichi, Ed.; Griek, Lyckle, Ed. – 1998
The International Seminar on Teacher Education for the 21st Century in Hiroshima explores innovative strategies to enhance the quality of teacher education in the Asia-Pacific Region. The goal of the seminar is to identify problems and issues related to teacher competencies at rural as well as urban schools in the region; the focus of the 1997…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Educational Development, Educational Planning, Educational Practices
Churchill, Kathy; Durdel, Julie; Kenney, Mary – 1998
An action research project described a program for improving prerequisite reading skills. The targeted population included students in a special education kindergarten and an at-risk first grade from declining urban schools located in a medium sized Midwestern city; and students in an at-risk prekindergarten program from a nearby middle class…
Descriptors: Action Research, Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Educational Environment
Silin, Jonathan G., Ed.; Lippman, Carol, Ed. – 2003
This book chronicles the educational struggle that took place in the city of Newark, New Jersey amidst years of political upheaval and economic neglect, focusing on Project New Beginnings, a 7-year collaboration between the Newark Public Schools and Bank Street College to restructure early childhood education. Organized in three parts, the book…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, College School Cooperation, Curriculum
da Costa, Jose L.; Bell, Susan – 2000
This study examined the actual and perceived effects of full-day kindergarten on students' growth in play and problem solving, language and literacy, and socioemotional development. Participating in the study were two kindergarten teachers and their classrooms serving similar diverse inner city populations in western Canada, one a half-day program…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Emergent Literacy, Emotional Development, Foreign Countries
Phillip, Mary-Christine – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1992
In an interview, the former president of the University of Notre Dame, Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, discusses prejudice in the Catholic church and Catholic education, Black English, Afrocentricity, school choice, innercity education, progress in civil rights in the United States, and immigration. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Afrocentrism, Black Culture, Black Dialects

Gay, Geneva – Education and Urban Society, 1993
Describes some of the demographic characteristics of students and teachers, explains some of the implications of these for teacher education, and offers some suggestions for how teacher preparation programs should be designed to respond to these demographic realities. Argues for teacher preparation that is population based and contextually…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cultural Background, Cultural Influences, Cultural Pluralism

Kantor, Harvey; Brenzel, Barbara – Teachers College Record, 1992
Postwar transformation of U.S. cities gave new form to longstanding racial and economic educational inequities, intensifying barriers to achievement facing disadvantaged students. By concentrating disadvantaged students in inferior innercity schools, educational problems are intensified. Bureaucratic school systems do little to address new…
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education

Heredia, Carlos B. – Community Review, 1992
Points to high failure rates among educationally underprepared students at the City University of New York (CUNY). Argues that CUNY's Hispanic and African-American students often enter with inadequate school socialization, learning, and standard English skills and that CUNY's efforts regarding diversity and pluralism neglect the student and often…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Ancillary School Services, Community Colleges, Cultural Pluralism

Margonis, Frank; Parker, Laurence – Theory into Practice, 1999
While school choice offers inner-city parents a means of educating their children well, it represents further deterioration of society's commitment to educating all students. This paper describes: the push for private school choice; parent choice in context (historical context and failures of desegregation); and segregationist strategies and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Democracy, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education
Huth, Les – 1995
Wartburg College (Iowa) and Waterloo (Iowa) Public Schools have cooperated to implement a teacher preparation program designed specifically for minority Teacher Associates who are employed in the Waterloo Schools and to enhance the diversity training of all graduates of the Wartburg teacher education program. The program was initiated and…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Experience Programs