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ERIC Number: EJ399755
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Public School 65, down on the Lower East Side.
LaBrant, Lou
Teaching Education, v2 n1 p6-9 Spr 1988
A retired professor of English education recalls the challenge her student teachers faced at urban junior high school with reading norms two years below average. The student teachers based their instructional program on the particular characteristics of their students' lives and homes, rather than on formal learning theories, and brought the reading norms up to two years above average. (CB)
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Teachers, Personal Narratives, Public Schools, Reading Achievement, Student Centered Curriculum, Student Characteristics, Student Teachers, Teacher Education, Urban Schools
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: LaBrant (Lou)