The Promise of Urban Schools

In the article, "The Promise of Urban Schools" Annenberg Senior Fellows program is a way to develop greater understanding of the ways high-quality urban education enriches all aspect of public life and serves as a powerful expression of democracy. In this article, the Senior Fellows developd five analytical leanses to guide their research. This techniques is the five lenses or Agency to bring about Equity and social justice through effective and culturally sensitive links between Instruction and curriculume and their actual as well as potential Outcomes and impact, with a particular emphasis on Urban condition and contexts or it is short coded for AEIOU. The central purpose of schools in democratic way to help students to be active participants in public life. Agency is the power to understand, act on, and effect positive change in one's personal and social context. Successful urban educators have find ways to connect construction of knowledge in the classroom with language, music, poetry, and other cultural forms. The educators have find a cultural form in which students are able to express themselves. In a situation like this, students are able to express themselves and appreciate the purpose of education. Most scholars look at the down side of school desegregation for the children and families. For example, African American teachers and principles are being demoted or fired. Too many urban schools were operated as "lock-down." An example of a lock down is Eastside High School, where Joseph Clark, principle of Eastside High School locked down the school to prevent drug dealers and prevent outside crime from entering his school. The term"Lock Down" is another way for the school to seem organized and structure to control students rather than to liberate, enable, and inspire them. Lke schools in all communities, urban schools must be held to high standards.