Center for Urban Education

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The Center for Urban Education’s vision is to be a space of learning and sharing with communities to positively transform educational opportunities and experiences. CUE structures its research, service, and knowledge dissemination into three areas:

Community Partnership & Engagement

CUE is a research center, but the success of its findings, projects, and progress in influencing practice is dependent on community partnership and engagement, which it facilitates through its Community Partnership & Engagement (CPE) affinity group. CUE is grateful for its partners and collaborators, ranging from school districts and administrators to community councils and foundations, and from government contacts and offices to local and regional parent/teacher organizations.

Educator Development & Practice

The Educator Preparation & Development (EDP) affinity group works to devise, document, and deliver the tools and processes teachers and administrators need for improving urban school systems. CUE strives to be an educator training and professional development facility of the highest order for educators in the region, while developing, delivering, and documenting processes and tools that can yield major improvement in urban school systems.

Student Academic & Social Development

The Student Academic and Social Development (SASD) affinity group focuses on experiences and support of students at all levels. Through research, practice, and school and community partnerships, SASD works to study and enhance student-learned, academic, and social development.

EdD in Urban Education

Both research and the current social climate point to a need for highly effective professionals trained with a focus in particular on urban school, their broader communities, and the social and political factors shaping their organization and function. To this end, the Center for Urban Education is offering and EdD ARCO focused on supporting profesionals in gaining a systematic understanding of urban schooling. In particular, the Urban Education ARCO is designed to support the development of leaders in urban education spheres. This program will also support professionals in connecting this work to improvement science to better understand and work with urban communities. Students in the Urban Education ARCO will develop a foundational understanding of the dynamics of urban education, including the history of urban life, communities, and schools in the U.S., as well as policy and practices in the field of urban education. This understanding will utimately support students in establishing a basis for lifelong learning through normative and critical reflection on urban education within its historical, philosophical, cultural and social contexts.

University of Pittsburgh
School of Education
Center for Urban Education
4303 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
230 South Bouquet Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
cue@pitt.edu
412-383-4487

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