Carlo Raffo is Professor of Urban Education at the University of Manchester, UK.

"What distinguishes this book from most ‘gap talk’ ... is the author’s determination to question the dominant policy assumptions and to base his argument on a social and moral perspective which involves the right to ‘agency freedom’ (Sen). " - Terry Wrigley, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, Improving Schools, 2014, Vol. 17(2)

• 1: Introduction – Improving Educational Equity in Urban Contexts 2: What is Educational Equity? 3: Disadvantaged Urban Contexts and Educational Equity 4: Educational Policy for Educational Equity 5: Leading Schools to Promote Educational Equity 6: Educational Equity and the Work-related Curriculum 7: A Vocational Education Programme Based on Notions of Equity 8: An Educational Equity Toolkit

Carlo Raffo is Professor of Urban Education at the University of Manchester, UK.

"What distinguishes this book from most ‘gap talk’ ... is the author’s determination to question the dominant policy assumptions and to base his argument on a social and moral perspective which involves the right to ‘agency freedom’ (Sen). " - Terry Wrigley, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, Improving Schools, 2014, Vol. 17(2)

• 1: Introduction – Improving Educational Equity in Urban Contexts 2: What is Educational Equity? 3: Disadvantaged Urban Contexts and Educational Equity 4: Educational Policy for Educational Equity 5: Leading Schools to Promote Educational Equity 6: Educational Equity and the Work-related Curriculum 7: A Vocational Education Programme Based on Notions of Equity 8: An Educational Equity Toolkit