Article: Making home an advantage in the prevention of reading failure: strategies for collaborating with parents in urban schools.

Article: So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in ...
The Journal of Negro Education;  July 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... particularly bottom-tier urban schools, and how such a climate ... actors inside and outside urban schools become invested in failure ... political conditions. Poor children, notes Payne, generally ... black inferiority" in urban schools and society more generally ...

Article: Bill's Book: Urban Schools Need Improvement
New Pittsburgh Courier;  May 7, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Bill's Book: Urban Schools Need Improvement On ... the problems with our urban schools, there are some areas ... the practice of busing children outside their public ... make for improving our urban schools will, by necessity ...

Article: Fostering collaboration in urban schools.
Academic Exchange Quarterly;  September 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... particularly true in urban schools, where challenges ... overwhelmed by problems children living in extreme ... conditions of urban schools and barriers they ... that urban, poor children are more likely ... Struggles faced by urban schools compelled us to ...

Preparing teachers for urban schools: the role of field ...
The Western Journal of Black Studies;  December 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... concern are "poor children of color" who ... attitudes toward urban schools and culturally ... ability than other children or that their ability ... of students in urban schools, researchers cite ... for why certain children can't learn ... field experience in urban ...

Article: Urban Schools : Forced to Fail.
Phi Delta Kappan;  December 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...If the urban schools are to offer their population of minority children access to the American ... and the destruction of urban schools. IS THERE anyone who doesn ... the worst of times. Our urban schools, once the pride of our ...

Article: Bill's Book: Panel Offers Unique Examination Of Urban ...
New Pittsburgh Courier;  October 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Offers Unique Examination Of Urban Schools The commission to study and ... Restructuring Pennsylvania's Urban Schools, was created with bipartisan ... examine the current state of urban schools in Pennsylvania and make recommendations ...

Article: EDITORIAL: Study proves urban schools can and do ...
University Wire;  May 28, 2002 ;     683 words ... ... typically cast aside urban schools as unable to compete ... documenting that many urban schools are doing well, the ... could do about urban children not performing well ... take funding away from urban schools. This study no longer ...