What is

Urban Education

Urban education is a method of schooling that takes place in large, densely populated areas with diverse populations. It can refer to the situations and demands that characterize teaching and learning in large metropolitan areas. Schools that offer an urban education experience usually have a high enrollment rate and a complex bureaucratic system. 

Urban education refers to a mode of learning and teaching that mainly takes place in urban areas. Three types of urban education are: “urban intensive,” “urban emergent” and “urban characteristic.” Urban intensive schools are those concentrated in large, metropolitan cities such as New York. Urban emergent schools are in large cities but not as large as major cities—they also have similar resources and academic development of students relative to urban intensive schools. Urban characteristic schools aren’t in big cities and are only just beginning to experience challenges associated with urban contexts.