Journal Articles relating to Urban Education (ERIC articlesearch)

Urban Education (ERIC) Articles

Predmore, Sarah R.

Meeting the Challenges of UrbanEducation

 

Techniques: Connecting Education& Careers; Nov2004, Vol. 79 Issue 8, p18, 6p

 

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Summary: Addresses career and technical classes offered in urban high schools

 

 

 

Reid, Karla Scoon

Urban Education

 

Education Week; 9/1/2004, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p18,1/9p.

 


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Summary: Provides links and info about a website for promoting cities as places of leadership and education

 

 

Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin

International Business Machinations: The Consequences of Corporate Involvement in Public School Reform.

 

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the AmericanSociological Association (93rd, San Francisco, CA, August 22, 1998).

 

Summary: Focuses on corporate involvement in Charlotte schools

 

 

Kim, Jason J.; Crasco, Linda M.

Best Policies and Practices in Urban Educational Reform: ASummary of Empirical Analysis Focusing on Student Achievements and Equity.

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the AmericanEducational Research Association (Chicago, IL, April 21-25, 2003).

 

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Summary: Student achievement and district practices in urban schools

 

 

Kim, Jason J.; Crasco, Linda M.

Best Policies and Practices in Urban Educational Reform: A Summary of Empirical Analysis Focusing on Student Achievements and Equity.

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Chicago, IL, April 21-25, 2003).

 

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Summary: Student achievement and district practices in urban schools

 

 

Zhou, M.1

Urban Education: Challenges in Educating Culturally Diverse Children.

 

Teachers College Record; Mar2003, Vol. 105Issue 2, p208, 18p
 

 

 

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Summary: Cultural diversity in an urban setting

 

 

Greene, Jay P.

 ManhattanInst., New York, NY. Center for Civic Innovation. (BBB36210)

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Summary: Covers reform basics for urban schools

 

 

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Chambers, Stefanie

Urban Education Reform and Minority Political Empowerment.

 

Political Science Quarterly; Winter 2002/2003, Vol. 117 Issue 4, p643, 23p, 3 charts

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Summary: Addresses the relationship between urban educational reform and minority influence in Chicago

 

 

Goldring, Ellen and Smrekar, Claire

Magnet Schools Reform and Race in Urban Education.

 

Clearing House; Sep/Oct02, Vol. 76 Issue 1,p13, 3p



 

 

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Summary: Magnet schools and urban educational reform

 

 

 

Klem, Adena M.1

You Can Get There From Here: Using a Theory of Change Approach to Plan Urban Education Reform

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Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation; 2000, Vol. 11 Issue 1,p93, 28p, 1 chart

 

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Summary: Theoretical approaches to urban education reform (interesting article

 

 

 

Burns, Peter1

Regime Theory, State Government, and a Takeover of Urban Education.

Journal of Urban Affairs; Jul2003, Vol. 25Issue 3, p285, 19p

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Summary: The governmentÕs role in shaping urban educational policies (This article seems somewhat controversial)

 

 

Ware, Melva; Richardson, Lloyd; Kim, Jason J. What Matters in Urban School Reform. How Reform Works: An Evaluative Study of National Science Foundation's Urban Systemic Initiatives. Study Monograph No. 1.

NationalScience Foundation, Arlington, VA. Directorate for Education and HumanResources.

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Summary: Urban educational policy and reform initiatives

 

 

Bensimon, Estela Mara1Polkinghorne, Donald E.2Bauman, Georgia L.3Vallejo, Edlyn4

Doing Research that Makes a Difference.

 

Journal of Higher Education; Jan/Feb2004,Vol. 75 Issue 1, p104, 23p


 

 

Summary: The authors for this article work at a center for urban education; addresses research methods to bring about institutional change

 

 

Walls, Charles

New Approaches to Truancy Prevention in Urban Schools.

 

ERIC Digest. Clearinghouseon Urban Education, New York, NY. (BBB00899)

 

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Summary: Addresses school attendance in urban settings and preventative approaches

 

 

 

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Steinberg, Adria; Almeida, Cheryl; Allen, Lili; Goldberger, Sue

Four Building Blocks for a System of EducationalOpportunity: Developing Pathways to and through College for Urban Youth. Fromthe Margins to the Mainstream.

 

Jobs for the Future, Boston, MA.(BBB26977)

 

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Summary: Building educational and leadership opportunities in urban secondary and post-secondary schools

 

 

Goldhaber, Dan; Anthony, Emily

Teacher Quality and Student Achievement.

 

Urban Diversity Series. ERICClearinghouse on Urban Education, New York, NY. (BBB00899)

 

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Summary: Teacher quality in urban schools as a policy reform movement

 

 

Goldenberg, Dr. I. Ira Kunz, Dr. Dan Hamburger, Dr. Martin Stevenson, Dr. Joseph M. URBANEDUCATION: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN RESEARCH, PROPAGANDA AND PREVAILING VIEWS OFEDUCATION.

 

Education; Spring2003, Vol. 123 Issue 3, p628, 7p

 

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Summary: Conference results addressing political and economic connections between institutional policies and urban education

 

 

Price, Hugh B.1

Urban Education: A Radical Plan.

Education Week; 12/08/99, Vol. 19 Issue 15,p44, 2p,1bw

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Summary: Plan for altering urban education; leadership and responsibility. (Appears to be an opinion article v/s an actual research document)

 

 

 

 

Books and Website Related to Urban Education

Urban Education Journal

Perspectives on Urban Education  University of Penn.

 

http://www.urbanedjournal.org/

 

 

Institute for Urban and Minority Education

Strategies for Closing the Achievement Gap ColumbiaUniversity


http://iume.tc.columbia.edu/,or http://iume.tc.columbia.edu/news.asp?page=103

 

 

 

Hope for Urban Education

A Study of Nine High PerformingHigh Poverty Urban Elementary Schools

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/urbanhope/index.html

 

 

Tyack, D.

The one best system:A history of American urban education Cambridge, MA: Harvard University,1974

 

 

Henig, JR, Hula, RC, Orr, M

Thecolor of school reform: Race, politics, and the challenge of urban education Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999

 

 

Slavin, RE. Madden, NA
 

Successfor All: First-year outcomes of a comprehensive plan for reforming urbaneducation American Educational Research Journal, 1990