Exploring Urban Literacy & Developmental Education. CRDEUL Monograph.

Overview & Synopsis

This collection of papers includes: "Introduction: Why Should We Discuss 'Urban Literacy' in Developmental Education?" (Dana Britt Lundell and Jeanne L. Higbee); "History of the Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban Literacy: 1996-2002" (Dana Britt Lundell); "The Traveling City: The Hudson's Store, Urban Literacy, and Access in Detroit, Michigan" (Valerie Kinloch); "Race and the Politics of Developmental Education: The Black Student Take-Over of Morrill Hall" (David V. Taylor); "Changing Objects to Subjects: Transgressing Normative Service Learning Approaches" (Heidi Lasley Barajas); "Science Education and the Urban Achievement Gap" (Randy Moore); "Saving the `False Negatives': Intelligence Tests, the SAT, and Developmental Education" (Randy Moore, Murray Jensen, Leon Hsu, and Jay Hatch); "Enhancing Literacy through the Application of Universal Instructional Design: The Curriculum Transformation and Disability (CTAD) Project" (Judith Fox and Jeanne L. Higbee); "Reflections: Experience Commentaries by Urban Developmental Studies Students (Reprint from 1997 NADE Monograph)" (Maria Valeri-Gold, Carol A. Callahan, Mary P. Deming, and M. Tony Mangram); "Developmental College Students' Negotiation of Social Practices between Peer, Family, Workplace, and University Worlds" (Richard Beach, Dana Britt Lundell, and Hyang-Jin Jung); and "African American Men from Hennepin County at the University of Minnesota, 1994-98: Who Applies, Who is Accepted, Who Attends?" (David Taylor, Bruce Schelske, Jennifer Hatfield, and Dana Britt Lundell). (SM)