Urban Education with an Attitude

Contents

Contents Preface ix Mary H. Gresham Introduction: Linking Theory, Practice, and Community in Urban School Reform 1 Lauri Johnson, Mary E. Finn, and Rebecca Lewis Call to Action: Promoting Educational Equity in Urban School Reform 1 The Racial Achievement Gap: How Can We Assure an Equity of Outcomes? 11 Pedro Noguera 2 Things to Come: Teachers’ Work and Urban School Reform 21 Dennis Carlson 3 Court-Ordered Reform of New York State School Aid 33 Michael A. Rebell 4 Connecting Community Development and Urban School Reform 41 Henry Louis Taylor Jr. Linking Urban Schools to Their Communities 5 Creating Small Urban Schools: Expeditionary Learning as School Reform 61 Greg Farrell and Michael J. McCarthy 6 Why the Arts Matter in Our Schools 71 Arnold Aprill 7 Art: An Educational Link between School and Community 79 Mathias J. Schergen viii CONTENTS 8 City Voices, City Visions: Digital Video as Literacy/Learning Supertool in Urban Classrooms 87 Suzanne M. Miller and Suzanne Borowicz Reforming Teacher Education to Improve Urban Education 9 Teaching to Change the World 109 Jeannie Oakes 10 Community Walk-About: Finding the Hope in Hopelessness 121 Ann Marie Lauricella 11 Transforming Urban Education through the Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student Achievement 135 Dennis Shirley University Partnerships for Parent Empowerment 12 Giving Voice to Urban Parents: Using a Community-Based Survey to Leverage School Reform 157 Lauri Johnson 13 Structural Barriers and School Reform: The Perceptions of a Group of Working-Class Parents 173 Gillian S. Richardson 14 Workshops with an Attitude 193 Patrick J. Finn, Lauri Johnson, and Mary E. Finn List of Contributors 219 Index 221 ...