Offering suggestions on setting up and maintaining a cross-age reading program, this book describes teachers' experiences in establishing a cross-age reading program in a multiethnic, multilingual inner-city school in Oakland, California. The book notes that what began as an effort to engage one under-achieving fifth-grade boy evolved into an…

Middle College, a high school program on the LaGuardia Community College campus, was designed to reduce the urban dropout rate, to prepare students more effectively for work or college, and to attract more students to higher education. As a public alternative high school on a college campus, the program creates a continuum between high school and…

Proposals for modifying attitudes and anxieties about mathematics by inner city students and increasing the chances these pupils have to succeed in college mathematics are presented. Orientation sessions are proposed for students entering colleges with mathematics deficiencies and anxieties. (MP)

Although often ignored by policymakers, African-American independent neighborhood schools provide models of successful learning environments grounded in cultural history and the pursuit of excellence. These schools are usually urban and mostly minority and have a long tradition of self-help providing stability to the African-American community.…

The New Haven Initiative for Excellence in Education is a private sector endeavor to support public schools in New Haven (Connecticut). The Initiative's premiere program is the Grants for Excellence program. Grants of up to $500 are available to teachers, administrators, and parents to fund special innovative teaching projects not normally funded…

Discusses how the Lowell School District (MA) formed a partnership with a university and microcomputer manufacturer to select equipment, created a committee of administrators, teachers, and parents to oversee and implement the plan, and how the implementation efforts will be evaluated. (JN)

As North America increasingly becomes an urban society, questions surface as to the role and direction of environmental education programs. Such programs may hold potential in abating some of the problems inherent with contemporary inner city youth. Several successful on-going programs are reviewed. (Author/CW)

"Cityschools" reports on research regarding the transformation of urban schools to make this research more accessible to practitioners in urban classrooms. This theme issue focuses on youth violence, exploring how some schools, families, and communities are working together to organize their resources and to design strategies to fight violence.…

The materials in this compilation focus on various aspects of Cuyahoga Community College's (CCC's) Urban Community College Transfer Opportunity Program (UCCTOP) activities. The first report provides on overview of CCC's UCCTOP emphases (i.e., early articulation initiatives and understandings, expansion of curricula linkages with postsecondary…

This resource booklet is a companion to the Urban Audio Journal entitled "Shared Responsibilities--Changed Lives: School-Linked & Community-Based Integrated Services." The audio journal and the resource book are intended to help urban practitioners, policymakers, and others in efforts to develop and implement school-linked and community-based…

This handbook describes an innovative instructional/innovation model (implemented in an urban school district in the southwestern United States) that represents a promising approach to the education of language minority students. School personnel, parents, and educational planners may use the handbook to assess the appropriateness of the…

Describes the Strategies for Teaching and Reinforcing Skills program at Bronx Community College as a solution to the mismatch between faculty expectations and the ability of poor inner-city students to perform. Discusses the writing across the curriculum program at suburban Richland College, focusing on administrative contributions to program…

The series "Self-instructional Notes on Social Participation" is a six volume series intended as teaching aids for adult educators. The theoretical, methodological, informative and practical elements of this series will assist professionals in their work and help them achieve greater success. The specific purpose of each notebook is…

This catalog is a collection of profiles describing 74 exemplary programs developed by public school teachers in New York, New York, under IMPACT II, a program to reward and recognize creative teachers. The profiles are organized by subject area, then divided by grade levels. Subject areas covered are the following: (1) The Arts; (2) Communication…

It is possible for at-risk students to perform at demanding academic levels, and their achievement can be improved dramatically in a relatively short time. Effective ways to teach at-risk children have already been identified; no new research is needed. This report covers the following specific issues related to educating high-risk students. It…