A study was conducted to develop data concerning the reactions of student teachers to contact with urban, black pupils. Subjects were 130 junior year student teachers (all but two of them white) who were assigned by their state college to four elementary schools in a small city school system. A 34-item questionnaire designed to tap attitudes…

This is an interim report on the Urban Education Institute, which is designed to provide part-time in-service education for experienced community college personnel. The objectives of the program are listed as follows: to retrain and retool teams of experienced personnel in order to make these personnel more effective/affective in meeting the needs…

Mankato State College's introductory Urban Education Program provides students with an inter-cultural, interdisciplinary, and inter-institutional educational program. The main emphasis of this program is on the clinical experiences at the Willard Elementary School, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Each college student is assigned to a classroom teacher.…

In response to a questionnaire, school districts that are members of the Council of the Great City Schools (n=40) supplied information about their immediate and anticipated demand for teachers, recruitment strategies, and efforts to encourage diversity in the teacher workforce. Cities surveyed were from across the country. Colleges from the Great…

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)

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)

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)

Describes program in Washington, D. C. (RT)

Argues that the urban educational system best serves its varied clientele and performs its diverse functions if there is substantial power, wisely administered, at both the local school level and at a central place in the school system. (JF)