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Bingham, Richard D.; And Others – Urban Education, 1990
Examines the reasons why one-third of the teachers in a large urban school district rated the quality of their school highly but did not want their own children to attend the school where they taught. Finds the following explanations: (1) overall school quality; (2) disciplinary consistency; and (3) racial attitudes. Discusses policy implications.…
Descriptors: Discipline Problems, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Weiner, Lois – New Schools, New Communities, 1995
Research suggests that using an ecological approach to school reform calls for understanding how urban school curricula, procedures, and regulations affect interactions among students, teachers, and parents and then devising solutions that do not blame any party. The federal program Trainers of Teacher Trainers exemplifies forging new…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Gursky, Daniel – Teacher Magazine, 1992
One professor of education's solution to the shortage of qualified urban teachers is an urban teacher selection interview that predicts would-be teachers' professional potential in the classroom. It involves relentless questioning by interviewers who test the interviewees' persistence in handling tough problems then rate their potential as…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Interviews

Lasley, Thomas J., II; Ridenour, Carolyn; Talbert-Johnson, Carolyn; Raisch, Chad – Education and Urban Society, 1999
A review of the research and a look at some assumptions about charter schools suggests that charter schools do have the potential to help teachers improve instruction. The effectiveness of charter school reforms emerges from common focus and a certain level of teacher self-determination. (SLD)
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education

Norman, Obed; Ault, Charles R., Jr.; Bentz, Bonnie; Meskimen, Lloyd – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2001
Explores how sociocultural factors involved in the manifestation and eventual disappearance of the gap for these groups may shed light on how to address the achievement gap for African American students in urban science education. (Contains 47 references.) (DDR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Upadhyay, Bhaskar Raj – Science Education, 2006
This paper examines the use of students' lived experiences in an urban elementary science classroom. Students bring different funds of knowledge that are accumulated through their lived experiences into the classroom, and I examine what those funds of knowledge mean to an elementary science teacher working in an urban school. I describe how a…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Science Teachers, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction
Catapano, Susan – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2006
In this discussion of one university's teacher education program, steps taken to mentor pre-service teachers learning to support families and children in urban settings are aligned with advocacy strategies. Using a service-learning model, teachers explore issues of social justice by completing a full year of field experiences in an urban…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Preservice Teacher Education, Urban Schools, Mentors
Kincheloe, Joe L., Ed.; Hayes, Kecia, Ed.; Rose, Karel, Ed.; Anderson, Philip M., Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007
Maintaining that urban teaching and learning is characterized by many contradictions, this book proposes that there is a wide range of social, cultural, psychological, and pedagogical knowledge urban educators must possess in order to engage in effective and transformative practice. It is necessary for those teaching in urban schools to be…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Urban Education

Long, Samuel; Long, Ruth – Journal of Negro Education, 1974
In an attempt to explore the impact of the teacher in programs for the environmentally disadvantaged, teacher-candidates' attitudes toward poverty were investigated with respect to perceived causes, symptoms, relative influence of socialization agents and potential poverty alleviation agents, and most effective treatment strategies. Implications…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Poverty, Poverty Programs
Swets, Marinus – Phi Delta Kappan, 1969
A Non-fiction short story .
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Human Development, Human Dignity
HEBOUT, JOHN E. – 1963
THE CENTER WORKS WITH RUTGERS UNIVERSITY TO MAKE USE OF URBAN STUDIES IN APPROPRIATE RESEARCH AND TEACHING PROGRAMS AND IN OTHER INTELLECTUAL SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY. THE FIVE MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CENTER - EXTENSION, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION, LIBRARY SERVICES, OPPORTUNITIES EXPANSION PROJECT, AND THE URBAN FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM - ARE…
Descriptors: Community Study, Educational Research, Extension Education, Fellowships
BIVLIN, HARRY N.
THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS OF ATTRACTING AND RETAINING SUFFICIENT NUMBERS OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS. A MORE EXTENSIVE AND INTELLIGENT USE CAN BE MADE OF EXISTING LABORATORY SCHOOLS AND AFFILIATED SCHOOLS FOR URBAN TEACHER EDUCATION. INCREASED EFFORT CAN BE MADE IN POINTING TEACHER EDUCATION TOWARD URBAN TEACHING RATHER THAN PRESENTING ONLY THE…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Laboratory Schools, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs
Adair, Thelma; And Others – The National Elementary Principal, 1967
The School University Teacher Education Center (SUTEC) began in 1966 a demonstration program for the comprehensive training of elementary teachers for the urban complex. Prospective teachers (525 during the 5-year project) begin their professional studies early in the college sequence in a typical large-city school and receive continued…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Involvement, Elementary School Teachers, Experimental Schools
Maine Univ., Farmington. – 1973
The Career Opportunity Program (COP) selected trainees from a group of low-income, Model neighborhood people generally conceded to be high-risk college material in order to provide an example of the "multiple entry routes" to the teaching profession. The program provided models for the following areas: a) the consortium approach to…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Adult Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Teachers
Schwartz, Henrietta – 1972
This is a progress report on the Ford Training and Placement Program as it enters its fifth year of operation in training teachers for inner-city schools. It is stated that the major achievement of the program is the effective way it has served as a linking mechanism among the university, public school system, and local school communities,…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation