What are some of the challenges unique to urban educators?
The following challenges are not necessarily unique to urban educators, but they are certainly more prevalent: one-parent households, language other than English spoken in the home, high dropout rate/low attendance rate, discipline problems, low or no parental involvement, limited community resources, high turn over of administrators and teachers (because of frustration or burnout), students who live in low socio-economic neighborhoods, substance abuse concerns, gang concerns, low expectations for academic success. Q: Why were you attracted to TCU and the Center? A: Urban Education and the implementation of research-based urban education best practices have been of interest to me for many years. For 10 years, I was the principal of a high performing inner city school where each year at least 95 percent of the student population was on free or reduced lunch. I am eager to learn, network, and share some part of the practices that helped those I supervised to become successful. I would ho
