Critical racial studies of school choice elucidate the worsening effects of school choice policy on racial segregation in diversifying cities around the world. This paper contributes to this scholarship by illuminating how a neoliberal education policy of school choice has created racial divisions in new ways in a settler-colonial city. It focuses…

This paper explores the treatment of London by two authors who are profoundly influenced by the concept of the power of place and the nature of urban space. The works of Peter Ackroyd, whose writings embody, according to Onega (1997, p. 208) "[a] yearning for mythical closure" where London is "a mystic centre of…

Laments the lack of student publications in predominantly black high schools throughout the country, but especially those located in a poverty area of a city. (RB)

Reports the results of a study of preconceptions of secondary students from a small Spanish city. The analysis has led the authors to propose some recommendations for curricular design and development for schools in urban environments. (LZ)

Urges urban high school journalists and their advisers to assess the nature of press responsibility to report, interpret, and comment on community problems. (RB)

Shows how the advantages of ghetto living may be used in teaching communication and composition. (DD)

Studies the preconceptions of secondary school students about the urban environment. Provides evidence that young people are developing a reasonable consciousness of environmental issues. (Author/CCM)

Community resource sites in Maine were utilized by junior high school students participating in Operation EPIC, an ESEA Title III experimental program in curriculum. The program attempts to develop student awareness and appreciation of the urban complex: social, cultural, industrial, and recreational phenomena. Systematic evaluation of the field…

Presents a technique for teaching poetry to disadvantaged youths. (RB)

Suggests mural ecology as an alternative to studying other habitats, providing examples of zonation patterns, food webs, effects of physical factors, and influence of man on mural communities. Also suggests incorporating these topics into ecology courses, offering ideas for field work and comparing mural to traditional ecological studies.…

Explores ideas about the causes and consequences of urban and rural air pollution of secondary school students aged 11-16 years (n=786) using a questionnaire. Students thought the air in towns and cities was more polluted than the air in the countryside. (Author/SAH)

This guide presents seven units of study for secondary level social studies classes learning about New York City. The curriculum is designed to encourage students' active participation in, rather than passive observation of, their urban environment. Therefore, the various activities presented require students to investigate their own community's…

Francois Truffaut's film classic, "The 400 Blows," can provide artistic material for English teachers who wish to design a unit on the individual and society, on alienation, or on growing up. In the film, a powerful image of the terrifying isolation that the adolescent, Doinel, experiences is presented through repeated camera shots of…

The purpose of this study was to survey the emerging environmental educational programs in the elementary and secondary schools which focus on the aesthetics of the urban environmental as the total function of city design and its consequences upon the student as inhabitant and perceiver. A group of urban experts was chosen to formulate a consensus…