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Urban Education
Better Together
A Model University-Community
Partnership for Urban Youth
Barbara C. Jentleson
”Well organized with useful insights
and resources.”
—Teachers College Record
“A must-read for educators and policymakers
who care about improving
student performance.”
—John Burness, Franklin &
Marshall College
This is the dramatic story behind
the Duke–Durham Neighborhood
Partnership (DDNP) and its involvement
with Project HOPE, six quality,
community-based afterschool programs.
The text answers many frequently
asked questions about how
to create partnerships and includes
a range of programming activities
that educators and community
organizers can use to improve their
work with all children, especially
low-income minority youth.
New
Edition
2011/160 pp./PB, $31.95/5174-9
HC, $68/5175-6
Ghetto
Schooling
A Political
Economy of
Urban
Educational
Reform
Jean Anyon
Foreword by
William Julius
Wilson
“Anyon helpfully
returns our attention to the
tougher issues of race, class and urban
neglect... and in the process reminds
us of possible solutions.”
—The New York Times
Book Review
“Anyon...knows what she’s talking
about. Her new book convincingly
argues that inner-city education cannot
be turned around without improving
inner-city life.”
—Sunday Star-Ledger
“This important book is recommended
for educators, sociologists, city planners,
and public policy decisionmakers.”
—Library Journal
NEW
Best
Seller
1997/240 pp./PB, $23.95/3662-3
HC, $45/3663-0
Improving the Odds
Developing Powerful Teaching
Practice and a Culture of Learning
in Urban High Schools
Thomas Del Prete
“Features fascinating insights into the
classrooms of effective teachers from
multiple content areas.”
—Choice
“This book is a must read for any
educator but especially for those
who work with an urban student
population.”
—American Secondary
Education
Through the experiences of urban
high school teachers who partner
with their local university, Del Prete
provides unique insight into teaching
and learning in the midst of
reform. He illustrates why focusing
on teaching practice and school
cultures—more than standards and
accountability—is a more fruitful
way to achieve real and lasting
change. Features powerful portraits
from classrooms serving diverse
and low-income students.
2010/192 pp./PB, $30.95/5029-2
HC, $64/5030-8
the series on school reform
Effort and Excellence
in Urban Classrooms
Expecting—and Getting—
Success with All Students
Dick Corbett, Bruce Wilson, and
Belinda Williams
Drawing heavily on the words and
experiences of students, teachers,
and parents, the book describes
how educators closed the “performance
gap” for low-income
students by linking expectations
and results.
2002/192 pp./PB, $27.95/4216-7
Critical Issues in Educational Leadership Series
What School Boards Can Do
Reform Governance for Urban
Schools
Donald R. McAdams
Foreword by Rod Paige
“Offers a road map for leading largescale
change in big-city districts.”
—Education Week
2006/192 pp./PB, $33.95/4648-6
Policy
New
Edition
NEW
Best
Seller
2012 The Grawemeyer Award in Education • 2011 ForeWord
Magazine Book of the Year Award Finalist in Education • 2010
AAP Prose Award Honorable Mention in Education
The Flat World and Education
How America’s Commitment to Equity
Will Determine Our Future
Linda Darling-Hammond
“Contains a valuable lode of practical and researchbased
advice about how to improve our schools....
Darling-Hammond’s book gives us an idea of where
we could have been headed if she were in charge of
the country’s education policy.”
—The Washington Post
“Darling-Hammond identifies the policies and the practices that could turn
the tide from educational mediocrity to educational excellence for all if we
only had the will.”
—The School Administrator
“There are few who are as strong as Darling-Hammond in using and analyzing
statistical data and scholarship...and in fighting for educational equity;
when she talks about leaving no child behind, she truly means it. This book
is a must for graduate education students, educators, [and] policymakers....
Essential.” —Choice
“We are so fortunate that Linda Darling-Hammond has provided this roadmap
for educational excellence for all children in today’s flat world.”
—Richard W. Riley, Former U. S. Secretary of Education
“Given the accessible and yet sophisticated way that Darling-Hammond
analyzes past educational reform efforts and provides policy direction for
the future, it is no surprise that many in the field of education had hoped
that she would become the Secretary of Education under President Obama.”
—Teachers College Record
2010/408 pp./PB, $23.95/4962-3/HC, $54/4963-0
Multicultural Education Series
Also by this author: See Author Index
New
Edition
2006 NASSP Distinguished Service to Education Award • 2005 Outstanding
Academic Title, Choice Magazine • 2005 AESA Critics’ Choice Award
Class and Schools
Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform
to Close the Black–White Achievement Gap
Richard Rothstein
Foreword by Arthur E. Levine
“A must read.” —Choice
In this book, Rothstein points the way toward social
and economic reforms that would give all children
a more equal chance to succeed in school.
Contemporary public policy assumes that the
achievement gap between black and white students
could be closed if only schools would do a
better job. According to Richard Rothstein, “Closing the gaps between
lower-class and middle-class children requires social and economic
reform as well as school improvement. Unfortunately, the trend is to
shift most of the burden to schools, as if they alone can eradicate poverty
and inequality.” In this book, Rothstein points the way toward social
and economic reforms that would give all children a more equal chance
to succeed in school.
NEW
Best
Seller
2004/224 pp./PB, $22.95/4556-4
Co-published by the Economic Policy Institute and Teachers College Press
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