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Taylor, Monica; Coia, Lesley; Gallassio, Vinni; Giovannone, Jeanine; Leventhal, Allison; Olah, David; Premus, Maria – Perspectives on Urban Education, 2002
Discusses complexities arising when teachers and teacher educators use autobiographical texts to reflect on their personal/professional selves. Data come from an ongoing research project on teachers' autobiographies, which involves a group of educators at various stages of their career who meet regularly to write and share their autobiographies.…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Personal Narratives
Comer, James P. – Perspectives on Urban Education, 2002
Explains how problems in urban schools mirror problems in U.S. society and how this affects disadvantaged and minority children, discussing one professor's experiences with racial bias in his own educational experiences. Describes the creation of the Comer School Development Program, questioning reform projects and programs that do not take child…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cultural Differences, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Epps, Edgar G. – Perspectives on Urban Education, 2002
Examines school desegregation and the lack of research-based decision making by courts and school districts regarding these plans. Discusses the benefits, costs, and losses of school desegregation and recommends the development of programs and curricular strategies that build upon students' cultural backgrounds and strengths and development of the…
Descriptors: Black Students, Desegregation Litigation, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Bowman, Barbara – Perspectives on Urban Education, 2002
Explores the use of research in early childhood education and the relationship between quality early childhood education and school success, providing a historical perspective on young children's care and education, describing factors that have changed thinking about the needs of young children and their families, and suggesting steps for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Cultural Differences, Early Childhood Education
Fuhrman, Susan – Perspectives on Urban Education, 2002
Questions the excess of school reforms in urban school districts, asking why reform is so prevalent and so disappointing. Focuses on three possible sets of reasons (political factors overemphasis on structural solutions, and the research base underlying the reforms being adopted). Refers to efforts undertaken by the University of Pennsylvania's…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Harpalani, Vinay – Perspectives on Urban Education, 2002
Questions the current use of the "acting white" framework for African American students. Reviews a 1986 article by Fordham and Ogbu (which claims a cultural devaluation of educational attainment within the black community), suggesting that they misinterpreted the meaning of "acting white" and reframing the issue from a developmental perspective.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Racial Identification
