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• Title: Ain't Nothin' Like the Real Thing: Preparing Teachers in an Urban Environment.
• Author : Childhood Education
• Release Date : January 01, 2006
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 184 KB

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In her first journal reflection, Stephanie, a preservice teacher, described her initial impression of the urban school in which she was working. She wrote, "To be totally honest, my first impression was that I have never seen so many black people in my entire life!" While this comment may be surprising and jarring, Stephanie was being upfront about what many of my students were feeling in their first days of the Urban Semester Program at Ball State University. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (2000), almost 40 percent of the total U.S. public school population is made up of students of color; in many metropolitan school districts, that number exceeds 80 percent. However, as the demographics of schools in the United States are changing, the population of preservice teachers remains much the same. As Roman (1999b) states:

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