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