A supplemental text with a fresh, bold edge, Challenges of Urban Education includes a range of topics from quantitative analyses of student demographics to the description and analysis of urban high school students' creative writing. The book bridges the dualisms of local and global, theory and practice, and structure and agency. It furthers the advancement of "the new sociology of education" by making connections between the social context of urban schooling and the lives of the individuals who are affected by it.

Tables and Figures

vii

Acknowledgments

ix

PART I Critical Issues in Urban Education and Challenges for the Sociology of Education

Introduction: Challenges of the New Sociology of Urban Education

3

(16)

Karen A. McClafferty

Carlos A. Torres

Theodore R. Mitchell

Power, Meaning, and Identity: Critical Sociology of Education in the United States

19

(28)

Michael W. Apple

Social Theory and Educational Research: Reframing the Quantitative-Qualitative Distinction through a Critical Theory of Methodology

47

(32)

Raymond A. Morrow

Sociology of Education and Urban Education Policy

79

(20)

Geoff Whitty

PART II Empirical Perspectives on Urban Education

Where Neoliberal Ideology Meets Social Context: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Charter Schools and England's Grant-Maintained Schools

99

(28)

Amy Stuart Wells

Corporations and Classrooms: A Critical Examination of the Business Agenda for Urban School Reform

127

(48)

Roslyn Arlin Mickelson

A Comparative Analysis of Existing Secondary School Discipline Policies: Implications for Improving Practice and School Safety

175

(20)

Pamela Fenning

James D. Wilczynski

Marianela Parraga

Modeling the Effects of Changing Demography on Student Learning: Applications Designed to Change School District Practices

195

(32)

Anthony Gary Dworkin

Laurence A. Toenjes

Margaret K. Purser

Ayman Sheikh-Hussin

Gangsta Pedagogy and Ghettocentricity: The Hip-Hop Nation as Counterpublic Sphere

227

(44)

Peter McLaren

Battlin' Nihilism at an Urban High School: Pedagogy, Perseverance, and Hope

271

(28)

David Keiser

PART III In Conclusion: Reflections on the Dilemmas of Urban Education Reform

Gaps, Bridges, and Buffers in the Research, Policy, and Practice of Urban Education: A Dialogue

299

(14)

Theodore R. Mitchell

Carlos A. Torres

Karen A. McClafferty

Memoirs of Urban Education Policymakers: A Dialogue among Three Former Urban School Superintendents

313

(22)

Harry Handler

Sid Thompson

Eugene Tucker

Carlos A. Torres

Karen A. McClafferty

The Contributors

335

(6)

Index

341

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