Urban Education With An Attitude

URBAN EDUCATION WITH AN ATTITUDE......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction: Linking Theory, Practice, and Community in Urban School Reform......Page 12
Call to Action: Promoting Educational Equity in Urban School Reform......Page 20
1. The Racial Achievement Gap: How Can We Assure an Equity of Outcomes?......Page 22
2. Things to Come: Teachers’ Work and Urban School Reform......Page 32
3. Court-Ordered Reform of New York State School Aid......Page 44
4. Connecting Community Development andUrban School Reform......Page 52
Linking Urban Schools to Their Communities......Page 70
5. Creating Small Urban Schools: Expeditionary Learning as School Reform......Page 72
6. Why the Arts Matter in Our Schools......Page 82
7. Art: An Educational Link between School and Community......Page 90
8. City Voices, City Visions: Digital Video as Literacy/Learning Supertool in Urban Classrooms......Page 98
Reforming Teacher Education to Improve Urban Education......Page 118
9. Teaching to Change the World......Page 120
10. Community Walk-About: Finding the Hope in Hopelessness......Page 132
11. Transforming Urban Education through the Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student Achievement......Page 146
University Partnerships for Parent Empowerment......Page 166
12. Giving Voice to Urban Parents: Using a Community-Based Survey to Leverage School Reform......Page 168
13. Structural Barriers and School Reform: The Perceptions of a Group of Working-Class Parents......Page 184
14. Workshops with an Attitude......Page 204
Contributors......Page 230
E......Page 232
S......Page 233
U......Page 234
W......Page 235