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Mayberry, Claude – Education for the Disadvantaged Child, 1973
Develops a perspective on relevance and suggests some means of maximizing the effectiveness of our educational goals in teaching the disadvantaged child mathematics. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Inner City, Instructional Materials, Learning Processes
Grigsby, Eugene, III. – Educ Urban Soc, 1970
Reports research indicating the inability of teachers and administrators not sharing the social and verbal meanings of blacks to communicate with the latter. An instrument designed to measure knowledge about general subject matter is described. (JM)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Elementary School Teachers, Language Role, Relevance (Education)
Agress, Lynne – Improving College and University Teaching, 1979
A college instructor describes her experiences teaching two remedial composition courses as part of the Urban Education Program at Westfield State College in Massachusetts. Focus is on teaching methods that emphasized grammar, writing, and reading, and on student progress throughout the courses. Examples of student work are included. (JMD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College English, College Instruction, Course Organization

Torres-Guzman, Maria E.; Goodwin, A. Lin – Education and Urban Society, 1995
Reviews the literature on mentoring teachers, focusing on bilingual and bicultural education and emphasizing issues relevant in urban settings. An interactive model of mentoring is proposed in which bilingual teachers, whether mentors or new teachers, can share perspectives sorely needed in this age of increasing cultural diversity. (SLD)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Cultural Awareness
Dichter, Alan; Orlen, Vivian – Educational Horizons, 2005
In this article, the authors describe their experiences in working with superintendents, principals, assistant principals, and teacher-leaders in New York City, embedding NSRF work into all their professional development efforts, and how responsive facilitation and using NSRF's principles of reflective practice, collaboration, and shared…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Feedback, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Administrator Relationship
Kulinna, Pamela Hodges; McCaughtry, Nate; Cothran, Donetta; Martin, Jeffrey – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2006
Background: It is critical to understand the contextual factors in schools that influence teaching behaviours and student learning outcomes. This study uses a contextual framework with four domain areas (personal, instructional, institutional, and societal) to take an in-depth look at urban/inner-city teachers' context and the enacted curriculum.…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Teacher Characteristics, Cultural Relevance, Teaching Skills
Brand, Susan Trostle – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2006
Educators have continually sought to achieve a balance between a phonics-based, code-emphasis program and a more holistic, meaning-based approach to emergent literacy instruction. This article describes an integrated phonics and literature-based approach to developing children's emergent literacy skills. These skills included alphabet knowledge,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Phonemes, Language Usage, Play
Covaleskie, John F. – 1994
This paper reports on how reform efforts since 1991 have affected teachers in an urban, K-6 elementary school of approximately 450 students. Teachers were predominantly female, middle-aged, and of European descent, while students were increasingly African-American and poor. Children were considered well-behaved by teachers, but less respectful…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Education

Rubin, Dorothy – Journal of Negro Education, 1974
An evaluation of an in-service reading skills and learning to learn program, designed to enable high school and professional personnel to both teach and cope with students who need these skills revealed that there does exist an understanding of the dropout problem, there is a need for the development of fundamental reading skills, and that…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Inner City, On the Job Training
Chrein, George – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1975
More than one thousand students in ten high schools throughout the City of New York are presently enrolled in an agricultural career program, specializing in farm production and management, ornamental horticulture, animal care, or conservation. More than 90 percent continue in occupational agriculture in the post-secondary schools. (Author/AJ)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Farm Occupations, Followup Studies, Off Farm Agricultural Occupations
Miller, Boyce – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1975
The development of a four-year vocational program in ornamental horticulture at a Baton Rouge high school is described by one of the program's two teachers. From 250 to 300 students participate each year, receiving basic training and experiences enabling them to secure jobs and to improve their home surroundings. (AJ)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Educational Facilities, Off Farm Agricultural Occupations, Ornamental Horticulture
MILLER, HARRY L. – 1963
BECAUSE OF THE TEACHER'S FEAR OF DIFFICULT SCHOOLS, HER RESISTANCE TO TEACHING IN THEM, AND HER LACK OF UNDERSTANDING FOR THE LOWER CLASS CHILD, HUNTER COLLEGE'S PROJECT TRUE SET UP A PROGRAM ORIENTING EDUCATION STUDENTS TO LOWER CLASS CULTURE. THE STUDENTS' REACTIONS WERE STUDIED TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THEIR NEGATIVE ATTITUDES CHANGED. FOUR…
Descriptors: Negative Attitudes, Slums, Student Attitudes, Student Teachers
Siegel, Florence Finkel – 1975
This study focused on the following questions involved in the implementation of the language experience approach: (1) Which tutor will produce the most effective responses? (2) What is the reality of the existence of a Black English vernacular syntax? and (3) Is there evidence of black-white linguistic overlap? Natural, transcribed conversations…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Black Community, Black Dialects, Child Language
Diamond, Lynn – 1976
The New School of Liberal Arts, a part of Brooklyn College, utilized team teaching techniques in order to raise reading, writing, and general skills levels of underprepared college students in the New York City area. During the year's study, students received intensive developmental help in conjunction with content courses in social institutions,…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Integrated Activities
Howard Univ., Washington, DC. School of Education. – 1971
The document, which summarizes Institute activities from July 26 to August 6, 1971, begins with an overview, emphasizing characteristics of the Institute participants. A background section focuses on the status of American, urban-dwelling blacks, the population group with which the teachers will be working. Eleven speeches are presented to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Blacks, Community Resources