Author: Sharon C. Lewis
Publisher:
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Category : Education, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 18

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Author: Michael D. Casserly
Publisher:
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Category : Education, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 14

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Author: Jason C. Snipes
Publisher:
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Category : Public opinion
Languages : en
Pages : 14

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In these reports, the leadership and staff of America℗s major urban public school systems share their feelings about the challenges they face and their expectations for the future. The reports provide statistics on demographic and financial changes in big-city schools.

Author: Council of the Great City Schools, Washington, DC.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15

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Americans rely on public schools to educate and prepare almost 50 million students to become productive members of society. Yet many public schools, particularly those in large cities, face significant challenges: over-crowded classrooms, shortages of highly-qualified teachers, low student achievement, achievement gaps, access to preschool, and aging facilities. This report is the sixth in a series of polls that survey the leadership and staff of America's major urban public school systems about the challenges they face and their expectations for the future. Findings include: (1) Urban school leaders continue to feel strongly optimistic about the future of urban schools; (2) Foundations, parent councils and associations, and community organizations were viewed as the most helpful partners in education reform; (3) For the first time since the inception of the survey in 1994, closing the achievement gap was cited as the number one need in urban public schools; (4) Urban schools are often engaged in numerous school improvement efforts, and for the first time, most members indicated that their district had developed principal leadership training; (5) The most dramatic change in the popularity of improvement efforts is reflected in the move of centralized curriculum up from a rank of 19 in 2001-2002 to 8 in 2005-2006; and (6) Respondents indicated that the most effective school improvement efforts revolved around improving the reading program. (Contains 7 figures and 2 tables.).

Author: Sharon C. Lewis
Publisher:
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Category : Public opinion
Languages : en
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Author: Sharon C. Lewis
Publisher:
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Category : Public opinion
Languages : en
Pages : 14

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Author: Cecilia A. Ottinger
Publisher:
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Category : Education, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 13

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Author: Festus E. Obiakor
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN: 039807612X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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This timely book exposes the complexities and realities facing urbanness and urban schools that are inadequately funded and denigrated, along with students who continue to be misidentified, misassessed, miscategorized, misplaced, and misinstructed by illprepared and unprepared educators and service providers. The text very successfully demonstrates the comprehensive nature and connectedness of problems and prospects in urban education. This book will be an added resource to researchers, scholars, educators, and service providers. It should be an excellent required text for graduate and undergraduate courses in all branches of education. Addition-ally, the book will be of interest to education administrators at all levels, public school teachers, policy makers, and change agents. The thirteen chapters discuss and explore the following primary topics:• Urban education and the quest for democracy, equity, and excellence• Educating urban learners with and without special needs• Personnel preparation and urban schools• Teaching and learning in urban schools• Educational leadership in urban schools• Insights into educational psychology and what urban practitioners must know• Managing violence in urban schools• Financing urban schools• Reducing the power of “whiteness” in urban schools• Promises and challenges of building and the future perspectives of urban education.

Author: H. Richard Milner IV
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000364054
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 715

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This second edition of the Handbook of Urban Education offers a fresh, fluid, and diverse range of perspectives from which the authors describe, analyze, and offer recommendations for urban education in the US. Each of the seven sections includes an introduction, providing an overview and contextualization of the contents. In addition, there are discussion questions at the conclusion of many of the 31 chapters. The seven sections in this edition of the Handbook include: (1) Multidisciplinary Perspectives (e.g., economics, health sciences, sociology, and human development); (2) Policy and Leadership; (3) Teacher Education and Teaching; (4) Curriculum, Language, and Literacy; (5) STEM; (6) Parents, Families, and Communities; and (7) School Closures, Gentrification, and Youth Voice and Innovations. Chapters are written by leaders in the field of urban education, and there are 27 new authors in this edition of the Handbook. The book covers a wide and deep range of the landscape of urban education. It is a powerful and accessible introduction to the field of urban education for researchers, theorists, policymakers and practitioners as well as a critical call for the future of the field for those more seasoned in the field.

Author: Karen A. McClafferty
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791444337
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Presents current research and theoretical perspectives on the challenges facing educators in U.S. urban schools.