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Web-Based Resources for Urban Teacher
Education
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v Contextual
Teaching and Learning
v Learning
Communities
v Other
Resources
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| Sponsor:
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation |
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is a website that offers information about educational
issues and debates. There is an editorial, along with
some articles chosen from various national sources. It
also gives a list of books pertinent to the subject. |
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article discusses the problems of public schools and the
way the education system is changing. |
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article goes into the involvement of suburban schools in
the educational reform and school voucher movement. |
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article talks about the recent declaration by New York
courts of the minimum standards of education in that
state. There is an issue as to whether the basic skills
that are supposed to be taught are enough to make
students into active, participatory citizens of this
country. |
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article outlines the issue of what is taught versus how
that information is taught. This discussion has come up
due to the movement towards standard-based education,
and the assumption that poor, minority schools can not
achieve as well as their wealthier counterparts. |
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