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

A comprehensive look at urban schools, using history as a lens for coming to grips with present-day social, political, legal, and economic realities reflected i

One civil rights-era law has reshaped American society—and contributed to the country's ongoing culture wars Few laws have had such far-reaching impact as Tit

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

Contending that urban education reform will fail without public engagement and a commitment to social justice, the contributors challenge urban educators to bec