Handbook of Schooling in Urban America

Name: Handbook of Schooling in Urban America
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ISBN: 9780313284120

ISBN-10: 0313284121

ISBN-13: 9780313284120

Edition: 1993

Authors: Stanley Rothstein

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Book details

List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 10/30/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 440
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English



Preface


Historical Perspectives


Introduction: A Short History of Urban Education



Children, Schools, and the Workplace



City Schools and School Systems: Sources of Centralization and Bureaucratization



Political and Organizational Perspectives The Criticism of Urban Schools



Policymakers and Politics in Urban Education



Iannacconne Curriculum Politics in Urban Schooling



The Organizational Structure of Urban Educational Systems: Bureaucratic Practices in Mass Societies



Weeres Teacher Competency in New York City Schools: Administrator and Supervisory Perceptions



Minority Perspectives Multiculturism in Urban Schools: A Puerto Rican Perspective



Teacher Perspectives: Why Do African-American, Hispanic, and Vietnamese Students Fail?



Meeting the Needs of Girls in Urban Schools



Teacher-Pupil Relations Teachers and Students in Urban Schools



"How Does the Culture of the Teacher Shape the Classroom Experience of Latino Students?"


The Unexamined Question in Critical Pedagagy



The Special Needs Child and the Role of the Urban School



The Urban Battleground The Urban Crisis



Latino Churches and Schools as Urban Battlegounds



Crack Kids: An Emerging Educational Dilemma



Pedagogical Problems


Introduction: The Nature of Pedagogy



Science and Urban Education



Drew Education, Society, and the School Dropout



What Can Be Done What Needs to be Done?



Violence


Gangs and Drug Abuse


What Urban Schools Can Do About Them



Reading the Urban Environment



Involving Minorities in Urban Education



The Principal in Urban Schools



Selected Bibliography


Index"