Handbook of Schooling in Urban America

STANLEY WILLIAM ROTHSTEIN is Professor of Education in the Graduate Department of Educational Administration at California State University, Fullerton. His previous publications include Identity and Ideology: Sociocultural Theories of Schooling (Greenwood Press, 1991) and The Voice of the Other: Language As Illusion in the Formation of the Self (Praeger, 1992).

American schools in urban areas have received much attention. This reference offers a comprehensive look at the issues and controversies at the heart of urban American education. The volume is divided into several parts devoted to historical, political, and social dimensions of urban schooling. The chapters in each part are authored by expert contributors, and each offers a fresh perspective on historical and contemporary concerns. The volume considers the place of schools in urban society and analyzes their mission and how they have changed, or failed to change, to meet modern needs. Much of the work is devoted to the problems of particular populations, such as minorities and special-needs students, while other chapters examine broad pedagogical issues and the societal problems that confront students of all backgrounds and abilities. Each chapter closes with a list of works for further reading, and the volume concludes with a bibliography.

This reference provides a comprehensive overview of historical, political, pedagogical, and social aspects of schooling in urban America.

PrefaceHistorical PerspectivesIntroduction: A Short History of Urban Education by Stanley William RothsteinFamilies, Children, Schools, and the Workplace by Richard J. AltenbaughCity Schools and School Systems: Sources of Centralization and Bureaucratization by H. Warren ButtonPolitical and Organizational PerspectivesThe Criticism of Urban Schools by Stanley William RothsteinPolicymakers and Politics in Urban Education by Frank W. Lutz and Laurence IannacconneCurriculum Politics in Urban Schooling by Louise Adler and Kip TellezThe Organizational Structure of Urban Educational Systems: Bureaucratic Practices in Mass Societies by Joseph G. WeeresTeacher Competency in New York City Schools: Administrator and Supervisory Perceptions by Laurence J. NewmanMinority PerspectivesMulticulturism in Urban Schools: A Puerto Rican Perspective by Antonio Nadal and Milga Morales-NadalTeacher Perspectives: Why Do African-American, Hispanic, and Vietnamese Students Fail? by Jacqueline Jordan Irvine and Darlene Eleanor YorkMeeting the Needs of Girls in Urban Schools by Charol ShakeshaftTeacher-Pupil RelationsTeachers and Students in Urban Schools by Stanley William Rothstein"How Does the Culture of the Teacher Shape the Classroom Experience of Latino Students?": The Unexamined Question in Critical Pedagagy by Antonia DarderThe Special Needs Child and the Role of the Urban School by Andrew E. Dubin and Jane Wheeler-DubinThe Urban BattlegroundThe Urban Crisis by Stanely William RothsteinLatino Churches and Schools as Urban Battlegounds by Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo and Anna Maria-DizaCrack Kids: An Emerging Educational Dilemma by Patricia TweeddalePedagogical ProblemsIntroduction: The Nature of Pedagogy by Stanley William RothsteinMathematics, Science and Urban Education by David Eli DrewEducation, Society, and the School Dropout by Charles MilliganWhat Can Be DoneWhat Needs to be Done? by Stanley William RothsteinCrime, Violence, Gangs and Drug Abuse: What Urban Schools Can Do About Them by William L. Callison and Nancy Richards-ColocinoReading the Urban Environment by Norma InabinetteInvolving Minorities in Urban Education by Paul W. Kane and Helen Parcell TaylorThe Principal in Urban Schools by Walter F. BeckmanSelected BibliographyIndex