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Teachers, community activists, and parents acknowledge and applaud democratic educational systems that establish partnerships between universities and the urban communities they serve.
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.
Preface
Mary H. Gresham
Introduction: Linking Theory, Practice, and Community in Urban School Reform
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?
Pedro Noguera
2. Things to Come: Teachers' Work and Urban School Reform
Dennis Carlson
3. Court-Ordered Reform of New York State School Aid
Michael A. Rebell
4. Connecting Community Development and Urban School Reform
Henry Louis Taylor Jr.
Linking Urban Schools to Their Communities
5. Creating Small Urban Schools: Expeditionary Learning as School Reform
Greg Farrell and Michael J. McCarthy
6. Why the Arts Matter in Our Schools
Arnold Aprill
7. Art: An Educational Link Between School and Community
Mathias J. Schergen
8. City Voices, City Visions: Digital Video as Literacy/Learning Supertool in Urban Classrooms
Suzanne M. Miller and Suzanne Borowicz
Reforming Teacher Education to Improve Urban Education
9. Teaching to Change the World
Jeannie Oakes
10. Community Walk-About: Finding the Hope in Hopelessness
Ann Marie Lauricella
11. Transforming Urban Education through the Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student Achievement
Dennis Shirley
University Partnerships for Parent Empowerment
12. Giving Voice to Urban Parents: Using a Community-Based Survey to Leverage School Reform
Lauri Johnson
13. Structural Barriers and School Reform: The Perceptions of a Group of Working-Class Parents
Gillian S. Richardson
14. Workshops with an Attitude
Patrick J. Finn, Lauri Johnson, and Mary E. Finn
Index