Increased black representation in urban public education has had positive symbolic effects.

In the late 1960s and 1970s, Havighurst focused his attention on the problems of urban education.

"In urban education very little of the realities get changed," she said.

He could be an effective force in Washington for urban education.

It can be the model for urban education in the country.

These centers will have the resources to deal effectively with the barriers to urban education.

Like parenting, urban education is a full-time business, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

People who set policy, city council persons around the nation, they don't have high expectations for urban education.

It dealt instead with finding ways to improve urban education and health care.

"What goes on in these classrooms, that's the story of urban education," said a teacher from Brooklyn.