Urban Education
LSS has developed a program of cross-disciplinary applied research, development, and dissemination to significantly improve this nation's capacity to foster development and learning success of children and youth in urban communities.

The overarching mission of LSS's Urban Education Enhancement Program is to: (a) put into practice what is known from research and practical know-how in coherent and practical ways to significantly improve the education of children and youth in urban communities; and (b) assist urban communities in scaling up systemic urban reform to ensure a high standard of achievement of every child in the mid-Atlantic region and the nation.

Program projects are designed to demonstrate the successful implementation of systemic urban education reform, and to identify strategies for sustaining scaling-up efforts to improve our capacity for achieving learning success of children and youth in disadvantaged urban communities. The program aims to serve as a resource at local, state, and national levels through exchanging information on urban education reform; establishing collaborative activities to enhance and extend the work of the Urban Education Enhancement Program; and developing networking and collaborative relationships to improve the capacity for education in urban communities.

Below is a list of information of particular note on this website, and a list of other Urban Education resources.
Of Particular Note On This Website:
The National Center on Education in the Inner Cities (CEIC) An interdisciplinary center established by the Temple University Center for Research in Human Development and Education (CRHDE) in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Houston, CEIC is supported by a cooperative agreement with the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) of the U.S. Department of Education as a member of OERI's network of national R&D centers.

The CEIC REVIEW Selected Issues: 1992-2000 The CEIC Review is the official publication of the Temple University Center for Research in Human Development and Education (CRHDE). The CEIC Review webpage offers a list of select issues of this publications, offering synopses of papers presented at CEIC meetings, on a wide range of topics of interest to urban educators.

The LSS Urban Education Enhancement Program The LSS will carry out a program of development, applied research, and dissemination to significantly improve this nation's capacity to foster development and education of children and youth in urban communities. This page provides a more detailed account of LSS activities.

LSS Research Areas: Urban Education: Systemic Reform Lead by Local Schools and Organizing Urban Communities for Systemic Educational Reform This webpage provides a more detailed account of LSS's program of development, applied research, and dissemination to significantly improve this nation's capacity to foster development and education of children and youth in urban communities

Publication Series The LSS Publication Series is a collection of research articles focusing on education reform issues.
Titles include:
• The Implementation of Two Reform Programs in Philadelphia: Lessons from Children Achieving and Title I School-wide Strategies
• Promoting Social Competence and Preventing Antisocial Behavior in Young Urban Adolescents
• Achieving Success in Inner-City Schools Is Possible, Provided...
• Fostering Resilience in Inner-City Schools
• The Effect of Local Reform on Title I School-wide Programs in Philadelphia
• Revitalizing Inner Cities: Focusing on Children's Learning
• Practical Approaches to Achieving Student Success in Urban Schools
• Fostering Educational Resilience in Inner-City Schools

Spotlight on Student Success The Spotlight on Student Success series is an occasional series of research briefs highlighting LSS findings that have significant implications for improving the academic success of students. Titles include:
• Classroom Instruction and Learning Environment Differences Between Effective and Ineffective Urban Elementary Schools for African-American Students
• Achieving Student Success in Inner-city Schools is Possible, Provided...
• The Effectiveness of Title I School-wide Projects : A Synthesis of Findings from the First Years of Evaluation
• Integrated Governance as a Reform Strategy in the Chicago Public Schools
• Using Research to Inform Practice in Urban Schools: Ten Key Strategies for Success
• Using Research to Inform Practice in Urban Schools: Reducing Education Segregation and Advancing Resilience Promoting Strategies
• When Federal Title I Works to Improve Student Learning in Inner City Schools: Lessons Learned in School-wide Projects in Minneapolis
• School-University Partnership: Restructuring an Urban School

Books This webpage describes numerous books, including: Resilience Across Contexts: Family, Work, Culture, and Community; Children and Youth: Interdisciplinary Perspectives; Development and Learning of Children and Youth in Urban America; Special and Remedial Education: Future Directions—A Special Issue of Education and Urban Society; Strategies for Improving Education in Urban Communities; and Urban School Reform: The Next Steps—A Special Issue of Education and Urban Society.

Resources: Urban Education This webpage includes LSS Urban Specialty Development Area Resources and Other Urban Education Resources.

Other Urban Education Resources:
American Federation of Teachers (AFT) website, which includes AFT's manual Raising Student Achievement: A Resource Guide for Redesigning Low-Performing Schools, a supplemental profile of school improvement efforts in Corpus Christi, TX, and a policy brief entitled Doing What Works: Improving Big City School Districts, which illustrates that entire school districts, by implementing common-sense, research-proven reforms, are posting significant gains, many for the third to fifth year in a row.

At-Risk/Urban/Rural Connections on the Internet Maintained by the Mid-Continent Regional Eduational Laboratory, this site provides a list of valuable resources for anyone working with children who are at risk and living in rural or urban areas.

Council of Great City Schools (CGCS) is an organization representing the nation's largest urban public school systems. Online information reports the activities of the Council's 49 member districts.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education - This site offers manuals, brief articles, annotated bibliographies, reviews and summaries of publications, and conference announcements in urban education.

MiddleWeb - This site explores the challenges of middle grades reform, with a special focus on urban middle schools.

Urban Professional Development Initiative - This site summarizes the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's efforts aimed at supporting professional development initiatives that will improve teaching and learning in the urban context.

U.S. Department of Education Technology Initiatives - This link provides information about the U.S. Department of Education's efforts to promote the use of technology in schools, libraries, and communities to achieve its mission of ensuring equal access to education and promoting educational excellence throughout the nation.