The literature on preparing teachers for urban schools provides a rationale for helping
candidates understand the particular cultures of students. However, research has not …

Urban teacher residencies have emerged as an innovation for recruiting, preparing, and
retaining teachers for high-need urban schools. Though residencies aim to prepare teachers …

Learning to teach in urban schools is difficult, particularly when prospective teachers come
from different racial, ethnic and/or class backgrounds than their students. The task of urban …

The shortage of competent, caring professionals who see themselves as urban educators
has long been recognized as a problem that teacher preparation programs need to address …

Reviews of research evaluating the impact of beginning teacher induction suggest that the
mixed results may be due to the fact that the programs do not fully address school context …

A teacher's knowledge ofhow culture is formed and sustained, and his or her attitudes
regarding education, are a vital component of effective student learning, par ticularly in …

From my perspective, there is no issue more important to improving urban education—
particularly the instructional practices of teachers in urban classrooms—than the preparation …

This chapter interrogates some of the core challenges that are currently being encountered
by urban schools and concurrently researchers, theorists, practitioners and policy makers in …

Given the crucial issues of disproportionality and the growing diversity of our K–12 student
population it is imperative that today's classroom teachers be prepared to critically examine …

Attracting and retaining high-quality teachers is especially challenging in urban districts. It is
in these communities where teacher candidates must begin their preparation. This article …