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• A Cross-National Study of Teachers' Attributional Patterns
  This cross-national study examined patterns in teachers attributional responses to outcomes of students with and without learning disabilities. Teachers from elementary schools in California and Guatemala City participated in the study.
• Abuse and Neglect
  Through the use of this comprehensive book, you'll learn your specific role and responsibilities in the identification, prevention, and intervention of child maltreatment as mandated by law. Child maltreatment can occur in all socioeconomic levels and cultural backgrounds creating barriers for learning.
• ADL's Collection of Educational and Anti-Bias Resources
  The full complement of educational materials, videos, posters, curriculum guides and books available from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is now accessible in catalogue form. Updated to include the most current ADL educational and resource material, ADL Resources for Classroom and Community is being distributed to schools, parents, organizations and communities.
• Adolescents and Inclusion: Transforming Secondary Schools
  Teachers and staff of an inclusive high school share their strategies for adapting curriculum, managing behavior, designing accommodations, and performing alternate assessments in this inspiring book.
• Alternative Teacher Program Trains Hundreds in Ga.
  An alternative teacher-preparation program piloted in Georgia intended to yield 200 applicants, drew thousands of inquiries, overwhelming and delighting administrators trying to alleviate a severe teacher shortage.
• Anti-Bias and Conflict Resolution Curricula: Theory and Practice
  The ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education conducted a survey to identify anti-bias projects providing services nationally to schools and organizations, and those with programs easily replicable by local educators. The result is A Directory of Anti-Bias Education Resources and Services, comprised of profiles of 52 such projects.
• Assessment for Equity and Inclusion: Embracing All Our Children
  How students are assessed can determine not only the quality, type, and degree of education they receive, but has long-term consequences for their future. Assessment by standardized testing often labels poor and minority children in ways that exclude them from opportunities, while failing to measure their true potential.
• Caine Learning-Home of Brain/Mind Learning
  Caine Learning provides a good overview of how to reach "cognitive diverse_ classrooms and has a great list of online tools. We especially like the Capacities Wheel and the Guided Experience Model.
• Communication Strategies for Effective Collaboration
  As schools move to a more collaborative service delivery for students with exceptionalities, it is important for educators to communicate within school settings on a variety of topics related to meeting student needs. To meet the needs of all students and promote inclusion services, special and general educators must communicated with colleagues in school settings.
• Cooperative Learning and Strategies for Inclusion: Celebrating Diversity in the Classroom
  This book supplies educators, classroom support personnel, and administrators with numerous tools for creating positive, inclusive classroom environments for students from preschool through high school.
• Effective Education of African American Exceptional Learners: New Perspectives.
  This book presents 11 author-contributed papers covering the theory and practice of effective assessment and instruction of African American students with exceptionalities, including both disabilities and giftedness. Emphasis is on effective delivery of empowering services to African American youth and their families.
• Gangs Research
  Several abstracts from journal articles on gangs.
• Glimpses of innovation: Efforts to increase Chicano/Latino teachers in the southwest.
  This volume presents the results of an effort at the Tomas Rivera Center in Claremont (California) to determine what is being done in the southwestern United States to produce more Latino and other minority teachers, including descriptions of 31 programs currently implemented at colleges and universities. (ERIC Abstract).
• Hate Hurts: How children Learn and Unlearn Prejudice
  Links to classroom materials and information on the Anti-Defammation League's work.
• Houston Consortium Of Urban Professional Development And Technology Centers
  A consortium of nine institutions including the University of Houston and the Houston Independent School District to produce teachers who are effective in culturally diverse urban environments.
• How to Differentiate Instruction Reconcilable Differences?
  The article discusses differentiation as a philosophy and set of beliefs that acknowledges that students of the same age differ in their readiness to learn, their styles of learning, their experiences and their life circumstances. Differentiation is wary of approaches to teaching and learning that standardize.
• Implementing an Anti-Bias Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms. ERIC Digest
  Abstract: An antibias curriculum seeks to nurture children's potential by addressing issues of diversity and equity in the classroom. Goals of antibias curricula are to foster children's self-identity, interaction with people from diverse backgrounds, critical thinking about bias, and ability to stand up for themselves in the face of bias.
• Implementing distance learning in urban schools.
  This digest discusses how urban schools can implement effective distance learning programs through customized development of the three elements crucial to a successful distance education program: a sound instructional design; appropriate technology applications; and support for teachers, students, and collaborative partners (Steiner, 1999).
• Mediating Boundaries of Race, Class and Professional Authority as a Critical Multiculturalist
  This article presents one professor's reflections on the challenges of mediating the boundaries of race, class and professional authority in an undergraduate multicultural education course (abstract from article).You must register (free) on the site to review the article.
• National Center on Public Education and Social Policy
  The National Center on Public Education and Social Policy (NCPE) at the University of Rhode Island is dedicated to the continuous improvement of educational and community settings. The web site provides information for decision-making to promote the growth and healthy development of all children.
• Nonprofit Leadership and Democracy Curriculum: A Guide for Strategic Analysis, Participatory Research, Civic Action, and Effective Advocacy
  The Nonprofit Leadership and Democracy Project has developed an innovative educational and training curriculum to help equip current and future nonprofit leaders to meet the complex challenges facing the nonprofit sector.
• Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
  This collection of nine essays suggests that many academic problems attributed to children of color actually stem from a power structure in which the worldviews of those with privelege are taken as the only reality, while the worldviews and culture of those less powerful are dismissed as inconsequential or deficient.
• Peace Education
  In 1945, the United Nations was established to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war", "to reaffirm faith in the dignity and worth of the human person [and] in the equal rights of men and women", "to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained", and "to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom". Peace education has developed as a means to achieve these goals.
• PEF and Osborne Foundation Implement Urban Masters Program
  The Osborne Foundation has awarded $1.5 million to the Public Education Foundation (PEF) to implement a master's degree program for urban educators. The PEF, who will raise an additional $500,000 for the project, will coordinate the Osborne Fellows Project.
• Preparing Teachers for Urban Settings: Changing Teacher Education by Changing Ourselves
  This article describes the personal and professional changes experienced by a teacher education faculty who embarked on a joint project relating to urban education. The faculty members committed to write book chapters applying their areas of expertise to the challenge of preparing teachers for urban schools.
• Preventing and Countering School-Based Harassment
  Preventing and Countering School-Based Harassment is the result of two conferences on racial harassment and numerous training of trainer administrator workshops. This guide addresses the more comprehensive issue of school-based harassment by capturing similarities in cause of, type of, and remedy for all forms of harassment.
• Programs for English Language Learners
  Materials and a reference tool to assist school districts through the process of developing a comprehensive English language proficiency or English language learners program. The materials discuss helpful steps to follow in designing or revising a program.
• Research: Focusing In on Teachers
  Underlying much of the debate about teacher quality is a fundamental rift over what to make of the existing body of research on the topic. A summary of what the research says about effective teachers.
• School-Community-University Partnerships: Effectively Integrating Community Building and Education Reform
  Paper presented to Conference on Connecting Community Building and Education Reform: Effective School, Community, University Partnerships. The autor explains why universities are an appropriate and central partner to help develop and sustain better schools and communities.
• Social Relationships and Peer Support: Teachers' Guides to Inclusive Practices
  Facilitating positive peer relationships and supportive ties between students is essential to creating a successful inclusive classroom. This user-friendly guide for teachers offers proven models on how to build these important relationships.
• Standards of Mind and Heart: Creating the Good High School
  This is the remarkable story of the creation of a new kind of high school that truly aspires to educate all students to high standards. Believing that a deeply personalized culture can prevent the senseless violence that has invaded many public schools, educators at Souhegan High School in Amherst, New Hampshire set out to create a safe, caring, and academically rigorous school.
• Supporting Beginning Teachers
  Twenty to 30 percent of new teachers leave the field within 3 years, 9.3 percent do not even make it through their first year, and after 5 years 50 percent have left teaching. Unlike most other fields, in which new hires spend years training and building up to more challenging assignments, first-year teachers are generally expected to take on the same duties and responsibilities as people who have been teaching 20 years.
• Teachers for Chicago
  Teachers for Chicago. Promising Practices.
• The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children
  This book highlights several individuals and programs that have been responsible for improving the academic achievement of African-American students. The author reports on the positive results of culturally conscious education and highlights eight teachers who, though they differ in personal style and methods, share an approach to teaching that strengthens cultural identity.
• The National Institute for Urban School Improvement
  The National Institute for Urban School Improvement focuses on three strategies that are essential to the urban school reform agenda: (1) link existing education reform networks with special education networks; (2) build information systems that assist leadership teams in both focusing on goals for instructional, curricular, and cultural improvement and empowering action research agendas among school professionals; and (3) synthesizes existing research into accessible media, both print and electronic.
• The NEA Foundation
  Created by the National Education Association, The NEA Foundation empowers public education employees to innovate, take risks, and become agents for change to improve teaching and learning in our society.
• The path to teacher leadership in educational technology
  Contains a synopsis of the five stages in the learning/adoption trajectory toward teacher leadership in technology. The table matches effective strategies to promote growth from one stage to the next.
• The Pedagogy of Poverty Versus Good Teaching
  This is an excellent article by Martin Haberman analyzing the status quo of urban pedagogy and pushing teachers to think about ways to break out of this and re-engage their students.
• The Pre-Teaching Academy at Walton High School/Lehman College
  Initiated at Walton High School in 1984 the Pre-Teaching Academy has provided an introduction to careers in teaching through college classes and classroom internships for over 700 Walton High School juniors and seniors, 25% of whom plan to pursue, are pursuing or are engaged in teaching careers. All of the students are members of minority groups and most come from low income families.
• The Souls of Black Folk
  First published in 1903, this extraordinary work not only recorded and explained history, it helped to alter its course. Written after Du Bois had earned a Ph.D.
• The Urban Impact Project - Curriculum Redesign
  The Urban Impact Project's first goal is to restructure university coursework and university/school partnerships to better equip preservice teachers with the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to succeed with urban student populations, utilizing technology enhancements where appropriate. The Curriculum Redesign teams strive to reach this goal in three areas: science, reading, and math education.
• Transforming Education for Hispanic Youth: Exemplary Practices, Programs,and Schools
  A report on the Hispanic Dropout Project, a two-year study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education.
• Why Urban Parents Resist Involvement in their Children's Elementary Education
  Reseachers examined the perceptions of teachers and parents about family involvement in urban schools. The study generated from several others that have been conducted about teaching in high poverty, urban schools.