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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.
• AmeriCorps - Urban Education Service Corps (UESC).
  Professional Development Initiatives. The Nation's Voice for Urban Education, Council of Great City School.Seven urban school district and college of education partnerships, reflective of the regional and demographic diversity of the Great City Schools and the Great City Colleges, have participated in The Urban Education Service Corps (UESC) project.
• 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.
• Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children
  The 12 chapters of this book provide a rationale for an anti-bias curriculum, and discuss:(1) creating an anti-bias environment(2) working with 2-year-old children(3) learning about racial differences and similarities(4) learning about disabilities(5) learning about gender identity(6) learning about cultural differences and similarities(7) learning to resist stereotyping and discriminatory behavior(8) using activism with young children(9) using holiday activities in an anti-bias curriculum(10) working with parents.A self-education guide to starting an anti-bias curriculum is provided. Also provided are several lists of resources; a worksheet on stereotypes; a list of 10 quick ways to analyze children's books for sexism for racism; and a sample personal doll story.
• 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.
• Bringing Diverse Populations into the Teacher Certification Process
  The College of Education at Wayne State University focuses on the preparation of professional educators for urban settings. In 1997 the College won the AACTE award for best practice in the area of supporting diversity in the teaching profession.
• 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.
• Case Studies of Urban Schools: Portrayals of Schools in Change
  A National Center for Research in Vocational Education study. The project was designed to describe how a small group of comprehensive high schools in urban areas are developing, implementing, and evaluating educational restructuring initiatives that include vocational education as a key component of those efforts.
• Changing Urban High Schools
  A summary of the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform and the Annenberg Institute for Urban School Reform conference held in Baltimore October 2000. In small group sessions over the two-day meeting, participants discussed tactics, pilot programs, and models.
• Cities of Today, Cities of Tomorrow!
  The Cities project is an interactive programme brought to you by the United Nations CyberSchoolBus. Its six intense units of clear writing, exciting information and great images give you the best overview of urbanization-its history, its potential, its problems.
• 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.
• Cultural Diversity in Classrooms
  Teacher Talk is a publication for preservice and secondary education teachers that exists as a series of World Wide Web documents. Anyone is welcome to use these resources as long as they indicate that the article or lesson plan is a part of Teacher Talk which belongs to Indiana University.
• Different and the Same
  Researchers have found that children's racial attitudes are formed as early as three years of age. In elementary classrooms everywhere, diversity is a major topic of discussion among children.
• Digital Equity Tool Kit
  The Digil Equity Toolkit points educators to free, high quality resources that help address the digital divide in the classroom and community.
• Dis-Integrating American
  Racially integrated public schools have not become embedded in the foundation of American public policy. Nor do powerful claimant groups protect integrated schools.
• Doing Good: Best Practices List
  The top 105 Best Practices as chosen by the Technical Advisory Committee of the UN in Rotterdam, March 1996. The best practices are presented by category, and within each category, by region and by country in alphabetical order.
• Educating Urban Minority Youth
  A review of the research on promising practices for educating inner-city minority youth.
• 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.
• Elementary Teachers' Commitment Declines: Antecedents, Processes, and Outcomes
  This qualitative study examines the organizational, social, and personal factors that may influence elementary teachers' declining commitments. Our findings suggest that when the teachers under study felt unsuccessful, that is, when they experienced low feelings of efficacy and low feelings of community, teachers' commitments' shifted or declined.
• Excelencia Para Todos- Excellence for All
  A speech given by U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W.
• Gangs Research
  Several abstracts from journal articles on gangs.
• Georgetown - Office of Curriculum and Pedagogy (OCP), within the Center for Social Justice
  Within the Center for Social Justice, the Office of Curriculum and Pedagogy assumes three major responsibilities. (1) To promote, expand, and integrate community-based intellectual work within the curriculum.
• Getting in Trouble: The Meaning of School for "Problem" Students
  Three students attending an alternative school were selected because they had been labeled by their previous school and teachers as "problem students." A series of interviews was completed with each individual with the purpose of exploring the meaning of school for each. Each participant indicated an acceptance of the notion that education is important, but each also felt negatively about school.
• 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).
• Great City Teacher Project (GCT)
  The Great City Teacher (GCT) project focuses on the critical and long-standing need for elementary school teachers of learning disabled students. Under the auspices of the Council of the Great City Schools, the project is being implemented in five urban school districts working in partnership with five urban universities.
• 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).
• Literacy Cluster
  A California State University, Los Angeles Charter School of Education and Los Angeles Unified School District collaborative effort to improve teacher preparation and development in literacy .
• Making the Grade in High School: Success for African-American Urban Males
  Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland, profiles an ancillary program which address the needs of underachieving freshman males.
• 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.
• New Trends in language Education For Hispanic Students
  This digest summarizes the effective bilingual strategies described in Transforming Education and HDP's recommendations for bilingual education at all school levels. While the strategies are specifically oriented to the needs of Hispanic students, most can improve the education of all students with immigrant and limited English speaking backgrounds.
• New Urban Teacher Collaborative
  Indiana University School of Education at IUPUI is working in conjunction with the Office of Professional Development of the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) in an initiative known as the New Urban Teacher Collaborative (NUT-C). A Virtual Community Forum with sections for General Questions, Celebrations, Classroom Management/Behavior, Professional Readings, Elementary Curriculum, Middle and High School Curriculum and Technology supports beginning teachers during their first year in the schools.
• 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.
• On-The-Job Urban School Teacher Preparation Program
  A partnership program between the California State University, Northridge and the Los Angeles Unified School District to address the critical shortage of fully certified special education teachers and the need for alternative preparation programs to prepare on-the-job teachers. The program was designed to develop teacher competencies specific to serving urban students with special needs.
• 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.
• Poverty Around the World
  This program will help us to explore some of the issues that people living in poverty face. Exploring the issues of poverty can help us to find solutions.
• 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.
• Professional Development Schools Project
  A collaboration between Temple University and the School District of Philadelphia to improve education in the city on all levels. In the Professional Development Schools (PDS) Project, educators work collaboratively to provide the clinical settings necessary for new models of training preservice teachers and counselors, to provide life-long learning for seasoned teachers and faculty, to offer enrichment activities for students in grades K-12, and to provide avenues for involving community members in the education process.
• Professional Teaching Standards Project.
  A collaborative effort between the University of Toledo and other urban state universities and their respective urban school districts, including the Toledo Public Schools, and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards to assist teachers in preparing for National Board Certification.
• Program Finds New Teachers In Unexpected Places: Schools
  Recruiting highly qualified teachers to work in needy school districts isn't difficult if administrators know where to look for candidates.
• 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.
• Project FUSE (Field-based University and School Education)
  A program developed by Florida International University and implemented in the Dade County Public Schools to prepare teachers for urban classrooms.
• Project Site Support
  Since 1999, Project SITE SUPPORT (PSS) has made unmatched contributions to the Baltimore City Public School System by providing hundreds of highly qualified teachers who have been specially trained to meet the diverse learning needs of students in this challenging urban environment.
• Quality of School Life (QSL) Introduction: Quality of the Educational Workplace
  Cheryl Kershaw and colleagues at the University of Tennessee developed a set of surveys on school life. The introductory brochure, attached as a "zipped set of images of the brochure deals with teacher's perceptions of the workplace.
• 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.
• Rights, rights, human rights.
  Rights, rights, human rights. The word gets around.
• 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.
• Service-Learning and Teacher Education
  Researchers and teachers note that service-learning often increases student self-esteem, promotes personal development, and enhances a sense of social responsibility and personal competence. This Digest provides a definition and examples of service-learning, examines rationales and approaches, reviews research, and discusses future challenges related to service-learning in teacher education.
• Social Learning Theory and the Influence of Male Role Models on African American Children in PROJECT 2000
  This study is an assessment of observational learning commonly known as social learning theory of a group of 55 African American students who are participants in a mentoring program known as PROJECT 2000. From first through sixth grades male role models, who were largely African American, were in the classroom as teacher assistants.
• 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.
• Southern University At New Orleans And New Orleans Public School Partnership
  A collaborative program to implement the Comer School Development Program and enhance teacher preparation programs. In 1990, Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) and the New Orleans Public Schools (NOPS) formed a partnership, in conjunction with the Yale Child Study Center and the Rockefeller Foundation, to develop a viable, collaborative and cooperative project to replicate the School Development Program (Comer Process).
• 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.
• Teaching, Technology And Restructuring Partnership (T2ARP)
  A partnership program between the San Diego State University, School of Education and Department of Educational Technology, and O'Farrell Community School, a charter school within the San Diego Unified School District to prepare teachers for middle school.
• The Center for Urban Education
  The Center for Urban Education (CUE) is a research and action center whose mission is to conduct research that will result in the creation of enabling institutional environments for children, youth, and adults from socially and economically disenfranchised groups residing in urban settings.
• 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 Future Teacher Institute. Promising Practices, The Nation's Voice for Urban Education, Council of Great City School.
  The Future Teacher Institute (FTI) is a minority teacher recruitment model which was initiated and field-tested at the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) over a five-year period. The major goal of the FTI is to involve promising minority high school students in a direct teaching/learning experience in order to increase the likelihood that they will eventually choose a career in education.
• 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 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 United Nations Cyberschoolbus
  The United Nations Cyberschoolbus was created in 1996 as the online education component of the Global Teaching and Learning Project, whose mission is to promote education about international issues and the United Nations. The Global Teaching and Learning Project produces high quality teaching materials and activities designed for educational use (at primary, intermediate and secondary school levels) and for training teachers.
• 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.
• Urban Specialist Certificate Program
  With funding from URBAN IMPACT, a U.S. Dept.
• Urban Teacher Academy Project (UTAP)
  This site is designed to help school districts and schools, colleges, and departments of education learn about high school teaching career academies -- programs that encourage high school students to consider careers in teaching.
• Who is prepared to teach in urban schools?
  The article examines the hypothesis that alternative routes to teacher certification are more likely than traditional routes to recruit successful urban school teachers. Beliefs and practices of 45 secondary English and mathematics novice teachers from bo th routes were studied.
• 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.