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1. Adolescent Development and School Achievement in Urban Communities

   Resilience in the Neighborhood

   Edited by Gary Creasey, Patricia A Jarvis

   This timely volume explores essential themes, issues, and challenges related to adolescents’ lives and learning in underserviced urban areas. Distinguished scholars provide theoretically grounded, multidisciplinary perspectives on contexts and forces that influence adolescent development and...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Political Spectacle and the Fate of American Schools

   By Mary Lee Smith, Linda Miller-Kahn, Walter Heinecke, Patricia F. Jarvis

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   The authors argue that the most influential and well-known educational policy programs in the past 30 years are not based on democratic consensus, but are instead formulated by the political community as symbolic efforts meant to generate personal partisan gain....

   Published October 22nd 2003 by Routledge