Lectures tagged "Urban Schools"

Why High School Graduates Become College Dropouts
Melissa Roderick
April 25, 2006
01:40:14
Melissa Roderick discusses the last several decades she has spent conducting research and talking to students in Chicago's public high schools.
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Liberal and Conservative Theories on Urban School Change
Charles Payne
March 15, 2004
01:15:50
Charles Payne of Duke University, and author of I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Movement discusses "A Curse on Both Their Houses: Liberal and Conservative Theories of Urban School Change."
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Higher-Performing Urban High Schools
Paul Reville
November 20, 2003
01:30:11
Historically, urban high schools have proven to be the most challenging educational institution to effect lasting effective reform.