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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 members. By involving all stakeholders, this comprehensive approach provides a model for creating urban schools that not only excite and inspire, but also serve as engines for social change. Contending that urban education reform will fail without public engagement and a commitment to social justice, the contributors challenge urban educators to become accountable to their students and the communities they serve.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Introduction: Linking Theory, Practice, and Community in Urban School Reform
  2. pp. 1-7
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  1. Call to Action: Promoting Educational Equity in Urban School Reform
  2. pp. 9-57
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  1. 1. The Racial Achievement Gap: How Can We Assure an Equity of Outcomes?
  2. pp. 11-20
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  1. 2. Things to Come: Teachers’ Work and Urban School Reform
  2. pp. 21-31
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  1. 3. Court-Ordered Reform of New York State School Aid
  2. pp. 33-40
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  1. 4. Connecting Community Development and Urban School Reform
  2. pp. 41-57
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  1. Linking Urban Schools to Their Communities
  2. pp. 59-105
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  1. 5. Creating Small Urban Schools: Expeditionary Learning as School Reform
  2. pp. 61-69
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  1. 6. Why the Arts Matter in Our Schools
  2. pp. 71-78
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  1. 7. Art: An Educational Link between School and Community
  2. pp. 79-86
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  1. 8. City Voices, City Visions: Digital Video as Literacy/Learning Supertool in Urban Classrooms
  2. pp. 87-105
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  1. Reforming Teacher Education to Improve Urban Education
  2. pp. 107-153
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  1. 9. Teaching to Change the World
  2. pp. 109-120
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  1. 10. Community Walk-About: Finding the Hope in Hopelessness
  2. pp. 121-133
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  1. 11. Transforming Urban Education through the Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student Achievement
  2. pp. 135-153
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  1. University Partnerships for Parent Empowerment
  2. pp. 155-217
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  1. 12. Giving Voice to Urban Parents: Using a Community-Based Survey to Leverage School Reform
  2. pp. 157-172
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  1. 13. Structural Barriers and School Reform: The Perceptions of a Group of Working-Class Parents
  2. pp. 173-191
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  1. 14. Workshops with an Attitude
  2. pp. 193-217
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 219-220
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 221-224
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