Ghetto residents liken their communities to prisons as they comment on America's political, economic, and legal systems. (DM)

Describes the urban decay and deconcentration process in the St. Louis metropolitan area and its relationship to changes in local public schools. Offers evidence suggesting that schools are as much victims of urban decay as causes of it. (CMG)

Emphasizes the problems of Detroit, pointing out that, despite decentralization, the city remains dependent on the automobile industry, and that it is the automobile that has done so much to make Detroit an ugly place, the archetype of the factory city; and asserts that Detroit's problems "do not matter, for they do not touch people of wealth…

The interrelationships among income, health, education, employment, and crime in metropolitan areas are explored within the context of current trends in housing, transportation, and urban growth policy. The role of inner city schools in these phenomena is assessed. Alternative metropolitan strategies for central city investment or disinvestment…

Studied perspectives of 192 principals and 148 teachers in urban schools with regard to the challenges of urban teaching. Findings suggest that many of the challenge areas suggested in the literature on urban teachers were not ranked as very important by these educators, making the point that not all urban schools face the same challenges. (SLD)

Argues that perhaps there is a chance that the drastic conditions existing in the slums (conditions which are spreading to previously stable old neighborhoods) will be the major force which will break the back of factionalism, elitism, and neocolonialism and serve as the lever for authentic democratic community development. (Author/JM)

Current teacher training models and educational research perpetuate apathy toward social problems. An alternative model is needed that emphasizes the realities of urban life. (ST)

This article provides a broad view of the problems of metropolitan area schools and society, with emphasis on problems associated with the growth of racial and socioeconomic segregation in some parts of the metropolitan area. (Author)

In 1982, the Boston Compact attempted to tackle student dropout employment problems. This paper reviews the process of this agreement made by local leaders, traces the creation of a communitywide plan to respond to Boston's school dropout problem, and summarizes Boston's Draft Dropout Prevention Reentry plan. (Author/LHW)

Argues that the poor's plight is likely to worsen as New York City's fiscal crisis is transformed into a service crisis. Asserts that the tendency to close small old schools in areas where densities are higher (which minimizes transportation costs) closes schools that are predominantly attended by poor and minority students. (KH)

If past experience is taken as a guide, desegregation in the big cities will not come easily, yet interdistrict desegregation of public education is the key to allowing minority youth to participate in the mainstream of the economy in addition to relieving the tension between the races. (Author/AM)

Challenges the focus of the second wave of educational reform on improving teaching and teacher education as a solution to economic and social problems. Argues that urban teacher education should prepare teachers to confront the bureaucratic conditions that limit student and teacher success and encourage mutual respect. (FMW)

This action research project investigated young urban adolescents' perceptions of violence in their school and community. The project involved gathering information about the community; engaging adolescents in creative, interactive activities; collaborating to develop a community photography project to help adolescents represent their perceptions…

This ethnographic study of 50 male African-American gang members constructs a portrait of the culture in which these young men lived and points out factors that helped 11 of them begin to escape gang life, in contrast to the other 39 who lacked these supporting factors of families, teachers, and peers. (SLD)