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International Handbook of Urban Education
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It is evident that urban education has become the central focus of educators at the present time. In the U.S., for example, almost one third of all school age children attend schools in large urban school districts. It is in these urban schools where the diversity of cultures and languages is highest and where student learning is most problematic. What has emerged from recent work to improve urban schools is the insight that there is no one-size-fits-all panacea… More >>
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Thoughts & Lamentations of Urban Education
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How was your day at school? Well, let’s see: Student bites teacher; student spits into administrator’s face; students openly swear at teacher; teachers are told to raise test scores or look for employment elsewhere. Thoughts & Lamentations is an extended poetic narrative documenting these and other “challenges” confronting the typical “Urban” Educator during a typical school year. Often funny, often serious, always instructive, it brings to life the hazards awaiting… More >>
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Changing Urban Education
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With critical issues like desegregation and funding facing our schools, dissatisfaction with public education has reached a new high. Teachers decry inadequate resources while critics claim educators are more concerned with job security than effective teaching. Though urban education has reached crisis proportions, contending players have difficulty agreeing on a common program of action. This book tells why. Changing Urban Education confronts the prevailing naiv… More >>
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The Praeger Handbook of Urban Education
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Maintaining that urban teaching and learning is characterized by many contradictions, this work proposes that there is a wide range of social, cultural, psychological, and pedagogical knowledge urban educators must possess in order to engage in effective and transformative practice. It is necessary for those teaching in urban schools to be scholar-practitioners, rather than bureaucrats who can only follow rather than analyze, understand, and create. Ten major sectio… More >>
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Mayors and Schools: Minority Voices and Democratic Tensions in Urban Education
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This book examines the national trend toward mayoral control of big-city school districts through comparative case studies of Chicago and Cleveland – two school districts that adopted mayoral control during the 1990s. Chambers takes up the question of whether granting control to mayors in major cities will indeed fix public school systems. She finds that although both cities have experienced noteworthy improvements in student performance since mayoral control, the i… More >>
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