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Presents current research and theoretical perspectives on the challenges facing educators in U.S. urban schools.

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.

[Contributors include Michael W. Apple; Anthony Gary Dworkin; Pamela Fenning; harry Handler; David Keiser; Karen A. McClafferty; Peter McLaren; Roslyn Arlin Mickelson; Theodore R. Mitchell; Raymond A. Morrow; Marianela Parraga; Margaret K. Purser; Ayman Sheikh-Hussin; Sid Thompson; Laurence A. Toenjes; Carlos Alberto Torres; Eugene Tucker; Amy Stuart Wells; Geoff Whitty; and Jim Wilczynski.]

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      Publisher: State University Press of New York (SUNY)
      Publication Date: 1/27/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780791444344, 978-0791444344
      ISBN10: 0791444341

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Presents current research and theoretical perspectives on the challenges facing educators in U.S. urban schools.

      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.

      [Contributors include Michael W. Apple; Anthony Gary Dworkin; Pamela Fenning; harry Handler; David Keiser; Karen A. McClafferty; Peter McLaren; Roslyn Arlin Mickelson; Theodore R. Mitchell; Raymond A. Morrow; Marianela Parraga; Margaret K. Purser; Ayman Sheikh-Hussin; Sid Thompson; Laurence A. Toenjes; Carlos Alberto Torres; Eugene Tucker; Amy Stuart Wells; Geoff Whitty; and Jim Wilczynski.]

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