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Direct linkBerliner, BethAnn; Barrat, Vanessa X.; Fong, Anthony B.; Shirk, Paul B. – Online Yearbook of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2009
This study follows a cohort of first-time ninth graders over five years in San Bernardino City Unified School District (SBCUSD) to describe the magnitude of its dropout problem and the numbers, characteristics, and graduation outcomes of the dropouts who subsequently reenrolled in the district. Additionally, it documents reenrollment issues…
Descriptors: High Schools, Dropouts, Second Language Learning, Credits
Rozansky-Lloyd, Carol V. – Online Yearbook of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2006
PreK-12 teachers in an urban school district enrolled in a course designed to examine the complexities of teaching in urban schools. This course was part of a grant aimed at increasing math and science achievement of their students. Teachers critically examined local and national policies and conditions that added to the complexities of their…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Science Achievement, Teachers
Abbate-Vaughn, Jorgelina – Online Yearbook of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2006
Novice teachers who begin their careers in urban settings abandon teaching at dismal rates. Although teacher education programs make varying efforts to incorporate awareness about the diverse contexts of urban schooling into the preservice teacher curriculum--from the "one course approach" to whole curriculum imbedded--little is known about the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Urban Schools, Teacher Education Programs
Davis, Danne E. – Online Yearbook of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2006
Student teachers are rarely encouraged by experienced educators to consult schoolchildren to understand teaching and learning. Sometimes student teachers are not encouraged because of a believed incapacity to interact discernibly with schoolchildren--a belief stemming from minimal life experiences with people unlike themselves. Notions of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Graduate Students, White Students
Hill-Brisbane, Djanna; Easley-Mosby, Kenya – Online Yearbook of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2006
One of the greatest challenges for the Unites States as a nation, and for Paterson, NJ in particular, is how to attract and retain academically and pedagogically talented teachers for urban schools--teachers who are committed to remain in those schools to do the difficult, long-term work of reform and renewal. This work is critical if urban…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Change Agents, Educational Change, Data Analysis
Ikpa, Vivian W. – Online Yearbook of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2004
As the nation celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the 1954 Brown Decision, it is important to examine the achievement gap between children attending resegregated public schools and their counterparts attending integrated schools. The achievement gap is directly impacted by four specific interdependent types of deficits: moral, human capital,…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, School Districts, Achievement Gap, Academic Standards
