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Passow, A. Harry, Ed. – 1971
A grant from The New World Foundation made possible a series of lectures during the academic year 1969-1970 on the theme "Urban Education in the 1970's." A number of the specialists who had participated in the first work conference were invited to deliver another lecture. Each was asked to take another look at urban education from the vantage of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Ghettos
Bess, Lorraine J.; And Others – 1971
This paper presents an inner-city, elementary teacher education program which focused upon a) the acquisition of teaching techniques and skills in the urban learning setting, b) the learning of theory together with reinforced practice in functional field experiences, c) the reinforcement of principles of child growth and development through direct…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Evaluation Methods, Field Experience Programs, Preservice Teacher Education
Lightbody, Mary; Jones, Leslie S. – 1998
To help teachers in urban schools implement technology in their science instruction, two science educators analyzed a number of models for technology training. This paper explores answers to the question of how to design technology sessions so that they are highly valuable professional development experiences for teachers. The models for these…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Change, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Noguera, Pedro A. – Teachers College Press, 2003
What will it take for urban schools to achieve the kind of academic performance required by new state and national educational standards? How can classroom teachers in city schools help to close the achievement gap? What can restore public confidence in public schools? Pedro Noguera argues that higher standards and more tests, by themselves, will…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academic Achievement, Urban Teaching, Public Schools

Tractenberg, Paul L. – Urban Review, 1973
Discusses the physical and psychological environment in which urban education takes place and the circumstances under which teachers are assigned to urban schools of high or low quality, using data from several national surveys. (JM)
Descriptors: Financial Needs, Financial Support, Racial Relations, School Support
Day, David E.; George, Louise Y. – J Negro Educ, 1970
Examines the problems of introducing a new science curriculum to three inner-city elementary schools in Atlanta which are characterized by continual educational failure. (JM)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Innovation, Elementary School Curriculum
Wiles, David K. – Urban Educ, 1970
Tests predictions that peripheral as compared with inner city and traditional schools will have the largest percentage of teachers who are not only younger, teaching in elementary grades, females, white, and less experienced but also positive toward students and teaching. (JM)
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Student Teacher Relationship, Suburban Schools, Teacher Attitudes
Jablon, Paul C.; Born, Terry – S-STS Reporter, 1988
Addresses some of the problems confronting curriculum writers who seek to interface Science-Technology-Society (STS) units into science. Describes an urban school program which has STS as a component and has been successful in keeping at-risk students motivated and achieving in attendance. (RT)
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Motivation Techniques, Science and Society, Science Curriculum

Gay, Geneva – Education and Urban Society, 1995
Offers suggestions for using modeling and mentoring in urban teacher education in the belief that the power of models and mentors resides more in their being and behaving than in the finished products. Good role models live their ethics and beliefs personally and professionally. (SLD)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Beliefs, Ethics, Interprofessional Relationship
Shamburg, Christopher – Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, 2004
This article summarizes a formative evaluation of a two-year project to provide professional development in technology for urban early childhood teachers. The researcher collected and analyzed data from interviews of 18 teachers. Using the constant comparative method the researcher identified common barriers that inhibited the effective…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Technology Integration, Urban Teaching, Early Childhood Education
Alkins, Kimberley; Banks-Santilli, Linda; Elliott, Paula; Guttenberg, Nicole; Kamii, Mieko – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2006
Seven higher education institutions in Massachusetts collaborated to develop and implement Project QUEST (Quality Urban Education and Support for Teachers), a support program for beginning urban teachers. Motivated by both the need to retain beginning teachers beyond the first few years of teaching and the desire to increase urban school…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Urban Teaching, Socialization, Educational Cooperation
Ware, Linda – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2006
This paper describes early efforts underway at City College, New York, to introduce a disability studies content into an otherwise traditional special education programme. The paper draws on previously funded research projects that merged humanities-based disability studies in education, prior teaching experiences and excerpts from the writing of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Humanities, Teacher Education Curriculum, Teacher Education Programs
Skerrett, Allison – Studying Teacher Education, 2006
In this paper I examine how and to what extent various elements of my biography--race, ethnicity, gender, age, social class background, and prior personal and professional experiences--influenced my relationships with students in a graduate course examining the impact of race, gender, and social class on education. My lived experiences as an…
Descriptors: Biographies, Immigrants, Ethnicity, Females
Cohen, Monroe – Childhood Education, 2006
In this article, the author presents five valuable lessons on how an overseas educational consultant relates to concerns about preparing teachers to work in inner-city ghetto schools. The first lesson is learning to communicate and commune with another culture. Second, is seeing educational problems in a broadened social context. Third, is…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Social Environment
Firestone, William A.; Rosenblum, Sheila – 1988
Problems of urban high schools, including poor attendance, high dropout rates, low achievement, and poor social relationships, are linked together by a strong sense of alienation among students and teachers. Yet much of the educational research and policy treat these issues separately. In this study a conceptual framework for understanding student…
Descriptors: High Schools, Secondary Education, Student Alienation, Student Behavior