Urban education with an attitude / edited by Lauri Johnson, Mary E. Finn, and Rebecca Lewis.

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Material type: Text

TextAlbany : State University of New York Press, c2005Description: x, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780791463796 (hbk.)
0791463796
079146380X (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

307.91732 URB 23 011629

LOC classification:

LC5141 .U73 2005

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Table of contents

Contents:

The racial achievement gap : how can we assure an equity of outcomes? / Pedro Noguera -- Things to come : teachers' work and urban school reform / Dennis Carlson -- Court-ordered reform of New York State school aid / Michael A. Rebell -- Connecting community development and urban school reform / Henry Louis Taylor Jr -- Creating small urban schools : expeditionary learning as school reform / Greg Farrell and Michael J. McCarthy -- Why the arts matter in our schools / Arnold April -- Art : an educational link between school and community / Mathias J. Schergen -- City voices, city visions : digital video as literacy/learning supertool in urban classrooms / Suzanne M. Miller and Suzanne Borowicz -- Teaching to change the world / Jeannie Oakes -- Community walk-about : finding the hope in hopelessness / Ann Marie Lauricella -- Transforming urban education through the Massachusetts coalition for teacher quality and student achievement / Dennis Shirley -- Giving voice to urban parents : using a community-based survey to leverage school reform / Lauri Johnson -- Structural barriers and school reform : the perceptions of a group of working-class parents / Gillian S. Richardson -- Workshops with an attitude / Patrick J. Finn, Lauri Johnson, and Mary E. Finn.

Summary: "This book profiles local and national efforts to transform urban education and reinvent urban teacher preparation. It describes real programs in real urban schools that have developed policy initiatives that promote educational equity, community-based curricula, and teacher education and parent empowerment programs that emphasize democratic collaboration among universities, urban teachers, parents, and community

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	307.91732 URB 011629 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		011629

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The racial achievement gap : how can we assure an equity of outcomes? / Pedro Noguera --
Things to come : teachers' work and urban school reform / Dennis Carlson --
Court-ordered reform of New York State school aid / Michael A. Rebell --
Connecting community development and urban school reform / Henry Louis Taylor Jr --
Creating small urban schools : expeditionary learning as school reform / Greg Farrell and Michael J. McCarthy --
Why the arts matter in our schools / Arnold April --
Art : an educational link between school and community / Mathias J. Schergen --
City voices, city visions : digital video as literacy/learning supertool in urban classrooms / Suzanne M. Miller and Suzanne Borowicz --
Teaching to change the world / Jeannie Oakes --
Community walk-about : finding the hope in hopelessness / Ann Marie Lauricella --
Transforming urban education through the Massachusetts coalition for teacher quality and student achievement / Dennis Shirley --
Giving voice to urban parents : using a community-based survey to leverage school reform / Lauri Johnson --
Structural barriers and school reform : the perceptions of a group of working-class parents / Gillian S. Richardson --
Workshops with an attitude / Patrick J. Finn, Lauri Johnson, and Mary E. Finn.

"This book profiles local and national efforts to transform urban education and reinvent urban teacher preparation. It describes real programs in real urban schools that have developed policy initiatives that promote educational equity, community-based curricula, and teacher education and parent empowerment programs that emphasize democratic collaboration among universities, urban teachers, parents, and community

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