Urban Education With An Attitude

by Johnson, Lauri; Finn, Mary E.; Lewis, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9780791463802
• ISBN10: 079146380X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-15
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

This book profiles local and national efforts to transform urban education and reinvent urban teacher preparation. It describes real programs in real urban schools that have developed policy initiatives that promote educational equity. Community-based curricula, and teacher education and parent empowerment programs that emphaize domocratic collaboration among universities, urban teachers, parents and community memebrs. By involving all stakeholdes, this comprehesive approach provides a model for creating urban schools that not only excite and inpire, but also serve an engines for social change. Contending that urban education reform will fail without public engagement and a commitment to social justice, the contributors challenge urban educators to become accountable to their students.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Mary H. Gresham
Introduction: Linking Theory, Practice, and Community in Urban School Reform	1	(10)
Lauri Johnson, Mary E. Finn, and Rebecca Lewis
Call to Action: Promoting Educational in Urban School Reform
1 The Racial Achievement Gap: How Can We Assure an Equity of Outcomes?	11	(10)
Pedro Noguera
2 Things to Come: Teachers' Work and Urban School Reform	21	(12)
Dennis Carlson
3 Court-Ordered Reform of New York State School Aid	33	(8)
Michael A. Rebell
4 Connecting Community Development and Urban School Reform	41	(20)
Henry Louis Taylor Jr.
Linking Uran Schools air Communities
5 Creating Small Urban Schools: Expeditionary Learning as School Reform	61	(10)
Greg Farrell and Michael J. McCarthy
6 Why the Arts Matter in Our Schools	71	(8)
Arnold Aprill
7 Art: An Educational Link between School and Community	79	(8)
Mathias J. Schergen
8 City Voices, City Visions: Digital Video as Literacy/Learning Supertool in Urban Classrooms	87	(22)
Suzanne M. Miller and Suzanne Borowicz
Reforming Teacher Education to Improve Urban Education
9 Teaching to Change the World	109	(12)
Jeannie Oakes
10 Community Walk-About: Finding the Hope in Hopelessness	121	(14)
Ann Marie Lauricella
11 Transforming Urban Education through the Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student Achievement	135	(22)
Dennis Shirley
University Partnerships for Parent Empowerment
12 Giving Voice to Urban Parents: Using a Community-Based Survey to Leverage School Reform	157	(16)
Lauri Johnson
13 Structural Barriers and School Reform: The Perceptions of a Group of Working-Class Parents	173	(20)
Gillian S. Richardson
14 Workshops with an Attitude	193	(26)
Patrick J. Finn, Lauri Johnson, and Mary E. Finn
List of Contributors	219	(2)
Index	221