Urban Education Books

New and Published Books

1. Moving Teacher Education into Urban Schools and Communities

   Prioritizing Community Strengths

   Edited by Jana Noel

   When teacher education is located on a university campus, set apart from urban schools and communities, it is easy to overlook the realities and challenges communities face as they struggle toward social, economic, cultural, and racial justice. This book describes how teacher education can become a...

   Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. The Gates Foundation and the Future of US “Public” Schools

   Edited by Philip E. Kovacs

   Series: Routledge Studies in Education and Neoliberalism

   There has been much public praise for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s efforts to reform public education. However, few scholars have engaged substantively and critically with the organization’s work. While the Gates Foundation is the single largest supporter by far of "choice" initiatives...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. Gender, Race, and the Politics of Role Modelling

   The Influence of Male Teachers

   By Wayne Martino, Goli Rezai-Rashti

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book provides an illuminating account of teachers’ own reflections on their experiences of teaching in urban schools. It was conceived as a direct response to policy-related and media-generated concerns about male teacher shortage and offers a critique of the call for more male role models in...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
5. Learning to Liberate

   Community-Based Solutions to the Crisis in Urban Education

   By Vajra Watson

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   Few problems in education are as pressing as the severe crisis in urban schools. Though educators have tried a wide range of remedies, dismal results persist. This is especially true for low-income youth of color, who drop out of school—and into incarceration—at extremely high rates. The dual...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
6. Learning to Teach in Urban Schools

   The Transition from Preparation to Practice

   By Etta R. Hollins

   This book is about the transition from teacher preparation to teaching practice in urban school settings. It provides a clear presentation of the challenges, resources, and opportunities for learning to teach in urban schools; examples of the experiences, perceptions, and practices of teachers who...

   Published October 2nd 2011 by Routledge
7. Urban Education

   A Model for Leadership and Policy

   Edited by Karen Symms Gallagher, Rodney Goodyear, Dominic Brewer, Robert Rueda

   Many factors complicate the education of urban students. Among them have been issues related to population density; racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity; poverty; racism (individual and institutional); and funding levels. Although urban educators have been addressing these issues for...

   Published September 20th 2011 by Routledge
8. Education Policy, Space and the City

   Markets and the (In)visibility of Race

   By Kalervo N. Gulson

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Drawing on three case studies of K-12 public schooling in London, Sydney and Vancouver, this book examines the geographies of neoliberal education policy in the inner city. Gulson uses an innovative and critical spatial approach to explore how the processes and practices of neoliberal education...

   Published December 1st 2010 by Routledge
9. International Perspectives on Contexts, Communities and Evaluated Innovative Practices

   Family-School-Community Partnerships

   Edited by Rollande Deslandes

   Series: Contexts of Learning

   Research and practice in the vast field of school-family-community relations have evolved dramatically over the last thirty years. Schools throughout the world face enormous challenges due to demographic changes and societal problems, making partnerships among schools, families and community groups...

   Published June 8th 2009 by Routledge
10. International Perspectives on Student Outcomes and Homework

    Family-School-Community Partnerships

    Edited by Rollande Deslandes

    Series: Contexts of Learning

    This synthesis of the latest knowledge on homework presents unique findings by researchers from various countries and diverse professional backgrounds. It approaches the topic of homework from several perspectives, including its political and cultural contexts aspects of parental...

    Published April 5th 2009 by Routledge