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• A Legacy Deferred
  Martin Luther King High School and the city schools that serve poor, minority kids need the government on all levels to commit resources for community development, so that schools aren't coping with social crises created by economic conditions beyond their reach.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Educating Urban Minority Youth
  A review of the research on promising practices for educating inner-city minority youth.
• Excelencia Para Todos- Excellence for All
  A speech given by U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lessons learned.
  Gloria Ladson-Billings summarizes some of the lessons learned from working with the Teach for Diversity certification program.
• 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 .
• No Dream Denied: A Pledge to America's Children
  The third in a series of reports from The National Commisson on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF). No Dream Denied addresses the issue of retaining quality teachers in our nation's schools.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 Power of Preparation
  In an inner-city San Francisco elementary school, San Francisco State University graduate students practice-teach at the same place they take their education courses -- a professional development school that is run jointly by university teacher-educators and the school district.
• 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.