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Urban education with an attitude / edited by Lauri Johnson, Mary E. Finn, Rebecca Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Urban--United States--Case studies.
- Education, Urban.
- Community education--United States--Case studies.
- Community education.
- Popular education--United States--Case studies.
- Popular education.
- Teachers--Training of--United States--Case studies.
- Teachers.
- Curriculum change--United States--Case studies.
- Curriculum change.
- Physical Description:
- x, 224 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Teachers, community activists, and parents acknowledge and applaud democratic educational systems that establish partnerships between universities and the urban communities they serve.
- Contents:
- Intro
- URBAN EDUCATION WITH AN ATTITUDE
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Linking Theory, Practice, and Community in Urban School Reform
- Call to Action: Promoting Educational Equity in Urban School Reform
- 1. The Racial Achievement Gap: How Can We Assure an Equity of Outcomes?
- 2. Things to Come: Teachers' Work and Urban School Reform
- 3. Court-Ordered Reform of New York State School Aid
- 4. Connecting Community Development andUrban School Reform
- Linking Urban Schools to Their Communities
- 5. Creating Small Urban Schools: Expeditionary Learning as School Reform
- 6. Why the Arts Matter in Our Schools
- 7. Art: An Educational Link between School and Community
- 8. City Voices, City Visions: Digital Video as Literacy/Learning Supertool in Urban Classrooms
- Reforming Teacher Education to Improve Urban Education
- 9. Teaching to Change the World
- 10. Community Walk-About: Finding the Hope in Hopelessness
- 11. Transforming Urban Education through the Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student Achievement
- University Partnerships for Parent Empowerment
- 12. Giving Voice to Urban Parents: Using a Community-Based Survey to Leverage School Reform
- 13. Structural Barriers and School Reform: The Perceptions of a Group of Working-Class Parents
- 14. Workshops with an Attitude
- Contributors
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791483589
- 0791483584
- 9781423743897
- 142374389X
- OCLC:
- 62745078
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