Handbook of Schooling in Urban America

by Stanley Rothstein

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313284120
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/30/1993
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.94(d)
Lexile:	1480L (what's this?)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

A comprehensive reference on the historical, political, and social dimensions of urban American schooling, considering the place of schools in urban society and analyzing 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. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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