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Beacon Press
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English
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"Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education. Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in science classrooms as a young man of color, Christopher Emdin offers a new lens on and approach to teaching in urban schools. Putting forth his theory of Reality Pedagogy, Emdin provides practical tools to unleash...
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The University of North Carolina Press
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English
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How we provide equal educational opportunity to an increasingly diverse, highly urbanized student population is one of the central concerns facing our nation. As Genevieve Siegel-Hawley argues in this thought-provoking book, within our metropolitan areas we are currently allowing a labyrinthine system of school-district boundaries to divide students—and opportunities—along racial and economic lines. Rather than confronting these realities,...
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Lexington Books
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English
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"Closing Chapters attempts to explain the disintegration of urban parochial schools in Youngstown, Ohio, a onetime industrial center that lost all but one of its eighteen Catholic parochial elementary schools between 1960 and 2006. Through the examination of Youngstown, Welsh sheds light on a significant national phenomenon: the fragmentation of American Catholic identity"--
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For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly unequal, the gulf between the two extremes was widening--and it has widened since. The urban schools he visited were...
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As public schools become increasingly embattled by budget shortfalls, crowded buildings, and ever-more-rigid curricula, the burden of these restrictions has drastically changed the way children are expected to learn. Nowhere is this more obvious or more devastating than classrooms in high-need urban areas. Drawing upon teachers firsthand experiences in some of today's most demanding schools, leading education experts Beverly Falk and Megan Blumenreich...
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John F. Witte is Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include Democracy, Authority, and Alienation in Work; Choice and Control in American Education, co-edited with William Clune; and The Politics and Development of the Federal Income Tax.
Milwaukee, one of the nation's most segregated metropolitan areas, implemented in 1990 a school choice program aimed at improving the education of...
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"Urban schools face a multitude of challenges in the face of staggering inequity and need immediate support. In his book The Brilliance in the Building: Effecting Change in Urban Schools With the PLC [at Work] Process, Bo Ryan presents the ways leaders in urban schools can immediately begin enacting change utilizing the resources currently available to them. Using the Professional Learning Communities at Work (PLC) process, leaders will learn how...
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Discuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up-in fact, it will likely be a crucial factor in determining where that family lives. Not merely institutions of learning, schools have increasingly become a sign of a neighborhood's vitality, and city planners have ever more explicitly promoted "good schools" as a means of attracting more affluent families to urban areas, a dynamic process that Maia Bloomfield...
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Unapologetic and gritty, Teaching While Black offers an insightful, honest portrayal of Lewis's turbulent eleven-year relationship within the New York City public school system and her fight to survive in a profession that has undervalued her worth and her understanding of how children of color learn best. Tracing her educational journey with its roots in the North Bronx, Lewis paints a vivid, intimate picture of her battle to be heard in a system...
10) Freedom writers
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives, This assignment...
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"We all know what's "spozed" to happen in school, but what happens when one new English teacher doesn't follow the rules? In James Herndon's classroom what happened was that students began learning and caring about learning, often for the first time. And what happened was that the teacher got fired." "But Herndon's powerful story endures. His account of his year in a ghetto school is honest, straightforward, and ultimately profound."--Jacket
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Authors Louis and Kruse examine the question: Why do some school communities succeed and others fail? They take a look at five urban schools that have been attempting restructuring for several years - enough time to show results. They describe how the development of a professional community - or the lack thereof - impacts the implementation of change and how teachers' efforts at professionalism can positively affect the process. Focusing on the structural,...
14) Freedom writers
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives, This assignment...