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Direct linkRobinson, Petra A., Ed.; Allen-Handy, Ayana, Ed.; Bryant, Amber, Ed.; Lewis, Chance W., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2019
In 2014, The Urban Education Collaborative at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte hosted its first biennial International Conference on Urban Education (ICUE) in Montego Bay, Jamaica. In 2016, the second hosting of the conference took place in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Additionally, in 2018, the third hosting of the conference took place in…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, 21st Century Skills
Avila, JuliAnna, Ed.; Pandya, Jessica Zacher, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2013
The contributors to this edited volume examine the simultaneous implementation of critical and digital literacies and explore ramifications for the development and assessment of critical digital literacies (CDL) curricula across educational contexts. We ask: How has the increasing ubiquity of digital literacies in and out of school affected our…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Computer Literacy, Media Literacy, Praxis
Peer reviewedKeengwe, Jared, Ed.; Onchwari, Grace, Ed.; Hucks, Darrell, Ed. – IGI Global, 2014
With the emergence of innovative technologies, the digital nature of learning environments has changed the face of education. The integration of these technologies into classroom instruction is essential for promoting student learning. "Literacy Enrichment and Technology Integration in Pre-Service Teacher Education" examines the various…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Technology Integration, Technological Literacy
Scherff, Lisa, Ed.; Spector, Karen, Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
In "Culture, Relevance, and Schooling: Exploring Uncommon Ground," Lisa Scherff, Karen Spector, and the contributing authors conceive of culturally relevant and critically minded pedagogies in terms of opening up new spatial, discursive, and/or embodied learning terrains. Readers will traverse multiple landscapes and look into a variety of spaces…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Social Justice, Elementary School Science, Urban Youth
Slaughter-Defoe, Diana T., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
Urban education is an interdisciplinary field, characterized by introducing many perspectives to research pertaining to educational policy and to the practice of educating youth whose lives unfold in densely populated urban metropolitan areas. This book celebrates Constance Clayton's eleven-year tenure as superintendent of the School District of…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Urban Education, Race, School Desegregation
Wong, Pia Lindquist, Ed.; Glass, Ronald David, Ed. – SUNY Press, 2009
How can we better educate disadvantaged urban students? Drawing on over five years' experience in a broad partnership involving twelve urban professional development schools in five districts, a teachers' union, a comprehensive public university, and several community-based organizations, the contributors to this volume describe how they worked…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Youth, Disadvantaged, At Risk Students
Ball, Arnetha, Ed.; Tyson, Cynthia A., Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
"Studying Diversity in Teacher Education" is a collaborative effort by experts seeking to elucidate one of the most important issues facing education today. First, the volume examines historically persistent, yet unresolved issues in teacher education and presents research that is currently being done to address these issues. Second, it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Student Diversity, Cultural Pluralism
Steinberg, Shirley R., Ed – Peter Lang New York, 2010
The second edition of "19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City" adds new questions to those in the original volume. Continuing the developing conversation in urban education, the book is provocative in style and rich in detail. Emphasizing the complexity of urban education, Shirley R. Steinberg and the authors ask direct questions about what…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Critical Theory, Dropouts
Ferguson, Ronald F., Ed.; Dickens, William T., Ed. – 1999
The essays in this collection promote a conception of community development that entails building practical capacities to improve the quality of life among residents of targeted neighborhoods. The causes, consequences, and potential solutions of urban problems that lie both inside and outside neighborhood borders are emphasized. The chapters are:…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Development, Neighborhood Improvement, Urban Problems
Download full textPeck, Magda G., Ed.; Fitzgerald, Maureen, Ed. – 1998
This compendium of current practices contains descriptions of urban maternal and child health (MCH) programs. Many of the programs profiled have not been evaluated formally, but the profiles provide a starting point for examining what really works in MCH programs. Most of the 92 profiles are about improving access to care for urban children and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Medical Services, Profiles, Program Descriptions
Stronge, James H., Ed.; Reed-Victor, Evelyn, Ed. – 2000
This book is for educators who serve homeless students or students temporarily sharing houses with other families. It describes many promising strategies for working with these students. The chapters are: (1) "Educating Homeless Children and Youth: An Introduction" (James H. Stronge); (2) "Meeting the Developmental and Educational Needs of…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Homeless People, Teaching Methods
Fitzgerald, Maureen, Ed. – 1999
The designated leaders of maternal and child health (MCH) in more than 70 major urban city and county health departments submitted profiles of urban MCH efforts as a requirement for federally subsidized attendance. When these profiles were reviewed, eight broad themes were apparent as lessons from MCH practice. The lessons are: (1) drawing in…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Cooperation, Health Services, Profiles
Winters, Paul A., Ed. – 1997
The Current Controversies series explores social, political, and economic controversies that dominate the national and international scenes today from a variety of perspectives. Recent surveys have shown that, after years of decline, drug use among teenagers has increased during the 1990s, and that alcohol and tobacco use have remained…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Etiology
Rea, Dan, Ed.; Warkentin, Robert, Ed. – 1999
This book contains papers from a conference on at-risk youth that focused on building strengths and empowering youth by giving them skills for school and life. Following an introduction titled "Motivational Strategies for Empowering Youth-At-Risk" by Dan Rea and Robert Warkentin, the papers are: (1) "The Role of Learning Environments: Social…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Skill Development
Kelling, George L.; Kennedy, Randall; Musto, David F.; Petersilia, Joan; Cook, Philip – 1998
These papers share perspectives on crime and justice. The following lectures are included: (1) "Crime Control, the Police, and Culture Wars: Broken Windows and Cultural Pluralism" (George L. Kelling); (2) "Race, the Police, and 'Reasonable Suspicion'" (Randall Kennedy); (3) "The American Experience with Stimulants and Opiates" (David F. Musto);…
Descriptors: Crime, Guns, Justice, Law Enforcement
