ncludes URUR (over 50 contributors provide in-depth chronological coverage of Chicago area community struggles from the 1700s to 2012, 270 pgs) and the Student Journal (includes over 50 thematic, interdisciplinary, project-based, and/or student-ready curricular activities, 155 pgs).
This volume brings together leading scholars in urban education to focus on inner city matters, specifically as they relate to educational research, theory, policy, and practice.
REFERENCES Abbott, Carl. 1981. The new urban America: growth and politics in Sunbelt cities. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. Bagwell, Orlando and W Noland Walker. 2004. Citizen King, edited by W Noland Walker.
In Urban Renewal or Urban Removal? learners will engage the more troubling side of urban growth, development and gentrification to find out that people have confronted and resisted land / housing inequities and displacement since the ...
Presents current research and theoretical perspectives on the challenges facing educators in U.S. urban schools.
Christopher Emdin is an assistant professor of science education and director of secondary school initiatives at the Urban Science Education Center at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Reports on progress in the fight against the ingrained poverty and social problems of many of the USA's most devastated areas.
This is an important, forward-thinking, innovative book – a welcome addition to the field of urban education.” – H. Richard Milner IV, Helen Faison Chair of Urban Education, University of Pittsburgh
This book narrates the challenges, frustrations, and successes of Penn's campaign and its prospects for long-term change.
Argues that without fundamental change in government and business policies and restoring political power and economic opportunities to inner-city residents and the redirection of major resources back into the schools and the communities ...
Learning from Baltimore