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).

• Preface Historical Perspectives Introduction: A Short History of Urban Education by Stanley William Rothstein Families, Children, Schools, and the Workplace by Richard J. Altenbaugh City Schools and School Systems: Sources of Centralization and Bureaucratization by H. Warren Button Political and Organizational Perspectives The Criticism of Urban Schools by Stanley William Rothstein Policymakers and Politics in Urban Education by Frank W. Lutz and Laurence Iannacconne Curriculum Politics in Urban Schooling by Louise Adler and Kip Tellez The Organizational Structure of Urban Educational Systems: Bureaucratic Practices in Mass Societies by Joseph G. Weeres Teacher Competency in New York City Schools: Administrator and Supervisory Perceptions by Laurence J. Newman Minority Perspectives Multiculturism in Urban Schools: A Puerto Rican Perspective by Antonio Nadal and Milga Morales-Nadal Teacher Perspectives: Why Do African-American, Hispanic, and Vietnamese Students Fail? by Jacqueline Jordan Irvine and Darlene Eleanor York Meeting the Needs of Girls in Urban Schools by Charol Shakeshaft Teacher-Pupil Relations Teachers 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 Darder The Special Needs Child and the Role of the Urban School by Andrew E. Dubin and Jane Wheeler-Dubin The Urban Battleground The Urban Crisis by Stanely William Rothstein Latino Churches and Schools as Urban Battlegounds by Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo and Anna Maria-Diza Crack Kids: An Emerging Educational Dilemma by Patricia Tweeddale Pedagogical Problems Introduction: The Nature of Pedagogy by Stanley William Rothstein Mathematics, Science and Urban Education by David Eli Drew Education, Society, and the School Dropout by Charles Milligan What Can Be Done What Needs to be Done? by Stanley William Rothstein Crime, Violence, Gangs and Drug Abuse: What Urban Schools Can Do About Them by William L. Callison and Nancy Richards-Colocino Reading the Urban Environment by Norma Inabinette Involving Minorities in Urban Education by Paul W. Kane and Helen Parcell Taylor The Principal in Urban Schools by Walter F. Beckman Selected Bibliography Index