Defining sense of community as a feeling of belongingness within a group, this article
reviews research about students' sense of acceptance within the school community to …

Comprehensive school reform, or CSR, a currently a popular approach to school
improvement, is intended to foster schoolwide change that affects all aspects of schooling …

Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being
eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class …

" Unless we believe that those who have more are inherently superior to those who have
less, we should be troubled by the fact that patterns of achievement are often fairly …

Tremendous cultural and linguistic diversity is evident in our schools today. This text by one
of today's best-known and most highly respected multicultural educators presents examples …

Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes
maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education. Drawing on an …

The core argument of Jean Anyon's classic Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple: if we
do not direct our attention to the ways in which federal and metropolitan policies maintain …

Educators across the nation are engaged in well-meaning efforts to address diversity in
schools given the current context of NCLB, Race to the Top, and the associated pressures of …

This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in
American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms. Viewing" race talk" …

Mathematics education in the United States can reproduce social inequalities whether
schools use either" basic-skills" curricula to prepare mainly low-income students of color for …