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Foreword | p. ix |
Prologue: "A Talk to Teachers" | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. xxiii |
City Kids | |
Introduction | p. 3 |
from Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago | p. 8 |
from Holler If You Hear Me | p. 10 |
from Push | p. 19 |
"descendancy" | p. 28 |
from The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream | p. 31 |
"morning papers" | p. 37 |
"Four Skinny Trees" | p. 41 |
"To 'See' Again" | p. 43 |
City Teachers | |
Introduction | p. 55 |
"Building Community from Chaos" | p. 60 |
"Mr. B" | p. 74 |
"One of 'These Children'" | p. 85 |
"Are Those Real?" | p. 92 |
"The Curie 12: A Case for Teacher Activism" | p. 97 |
"daddy in jail" | p. 102 |
"Everything Flowers" | p. 104 |
"Lessons from Teachers" | p. 113 |
City Classrooms, City Schools | |
Introduction | p. 139 |
from The Shame of the Nation | p. 145 |
"'Yes, But How Do We Do It?': Practicing Culturally Relevant Pedagogy" | p. 162 |
"Desde Entonces, Soy Chicana: A Mexican Immigrant Student Resists Subtractive Schooling" | p. 178 |
"What Teachers Need to Know About Poverty" | p. 184 |
"disconnect: 1984 & the failure of education or CPS gets an F U" | p. 195 |
"'Comin' from the School of Hard Knocks': Hip-hop and the Revolution of English Classrooms in City Schools" | p. 197 |
"Parents as Writers: Transforming the Role of Parents in Urban Schools" | p. 207 |
"NCLB's Selective Vision of Equality: Some Gaps Count More Than Others" | p. 219 |
City Issues: Beyond the School's Walls | |
Introduction | p. 229 |
"Education in Our Dying Cities" | p. 235 |
"Unnatural Disasters: Race and Poverty" | p. 241 |
"And What Will Become of Children Like Miguel Fernandez?: Education, Immigration, and the Future of Latinos in the United States" | p. 255 |
"Education and the New Urban Workforce in a Global City" | p. 273 |
"brooklyn" | p. 287 |
"Little House in the 'Hood" | p. 290 |
"Race War: Policing, Incarceration, and the Containment of Black Youth" | p. 294 |
"Remembrance: Keeping Kids at the Center of Educational Policy" | p. 305 |
"Putting Education at the Center" | p. 310 |
Afterword: The First Day | p. 325 |
About the Editors | p. 328 |
Permissions | p. 331 |
Index | p. 335 |
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