This volume brings together leading scholars in urban education to focus on inner city matters, specifically as they relate to educational research, theory, pol

Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulat

In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to—and often end up becoming active in—urban public school

Since the early 1980s, when the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, segregation of black children has reverted

Mission Statement: The current education policy emphasis on higher performance standards, school-level accountability, and market-based reform presents importan