Discusses methodologies for school improvement and suggests that teacher-librarians should assume a leadership role in helping teachers and students become successful consumers of information. Topics include the quality movement; using the corporate world as a model; attitudes to change; strategic planning; continual improvement; lifelong…

The Urban Education Project developed by Research for Better Schools, Inc., has focused on meeting the needs of urban students in a changing and demanding society by creating the Urban Education Framework, which presents a new vision of the urban learner as culturally diverse, capable, motivated, and resilient. This vision suggests that urban…

The Urban Education staff at Research for Better Schools (RBS), Inc., has developed a conceptual framework to address the complex issues that must be dealt with in urban school-restructuring efforts. This overview of the Urban Learner Framework (ULF) describes its two major features: four research-based themes that are the foundation for a new…