What is the role of TCUs Center for Urban Education?
The Center will help to connect the pedagogy received by undergraduate and graduate students to what they will need to be successful in an urban environment. Q: What are some of the challenges unique to urban educators? A: 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
