Handbook of Schooling in Urban America

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface ix
• Introduction xi
• I Historical Perspectives 1
• 1: A Short History of Urban Education 3
• 2: Families, Children, Schools, and the Workplace 19
• 3: City Schools and School Systems: Sources of Centralization and Bureaucratization 43
• II Political and Organizational Perspectives 67
• 4: The Criticism of Urban Schools 69
• 5: Policymakers and Politics in Urban Education 73
• 6: Curriculum Politics in Urban Schooling 91
• 7: The Organizational Structure of Urban Educational Systems: Bureaucratic Practices in Mass Societies 113
• 8: Teacher Competency in New York City Schools: Administrator and Supervisory Perceptions 131
• III Minority Perspectives 143
• 9: Multiculturalism in Urban Schools: A Puerto Rican Perspective 145

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface ix
• Introduction xi
• I Historical Perspectives 1
• 1: A Short History of Urban Education 3
• 2: Families, Children, Schools, and the Workplace 19
• 3: City Schools and School Systems: Sources of Centralization and Bureaucratization 43
• II Political and Organizational Perspectives 67
• 4: The Criticism of Urban Schools 69
• 5: Policymakers and Politics in Urban Education 73
• 6: Curriculum Politics in Urban Schooling 91
• 7: The Organizational Structure of Urban Educational Systems: Bureaucratic Practices in Mass Societies 113
• 8: Teacher Competency in New York City Schools: Administrator and Supervisory Perceptions 131
• III Minority Perspectives 143
• 9: Multiculturalism in Urban Schools: A Puerto Rican Perspective 145
• 10: Teacher Perspectives: Why Do African-American, Hispanic, and Vietnamese Students Fail? 161
• 11: Meeting the Needs of Girls in Urban Schools 175
• IV Teacher-Pupil Relations 187
• 12: Teachers and Students in Urban Schools 189
• 13: How Does the Culture of the Teacher Shape the Classroom Experience of Latino Students?: The Unexamined Question in Critical Pedagogy 195
• 14: The Special Needs Child and the Role of the Urban School 223
• V The Urban Battleground 241
• 15: The Urban Crisis 243
• 16: Latino Churches and Schools as Urban Battlegrounds 245
• 17: Crack Kids: An Emerging Educational Dilemma 271
• VI Pedagogical Problems 285
• 18: The Nature of Pedagogy 287
• 19: Mathematics, Science, and Urban Education 297
• 20: Education, Society, and the School Dropout 317
• VII What Can Be Done? 333
• 21: What Needs to Be Done? 335
• 22: Crime, Violence, Gangs, and Drug Abuse: What Urban Schools Can Do About Them 339
• 23: Reading in the Urban Environment 365
• 24: Involving Minorities in Urban Education 379
• 25: The Principal in Urban Schools 395
• Selected Bibliography 411
• Index 413
• About the Contributors 419