Urban Education with an Attitude Book

	Preface
	Introduction : linking theory, practice, and community in urban school reform	1
1	The racial achievement gap : how can we assure an equity of outcomes?	11
2	Things to come : teachers' work and urban school reform	21
3	Court-ordered reform of New York state school aid	33
4	Connecting community development and urban school reform	41
5	Creating small urban schools : expeditionary learning as school reform	61
6	Why the arts matter in our schools	71
7	Art : an educational link between school and community	79
8	City voices, city visions : digital video as literacy/learning supertool in urban classrooms	87
9	Teaching to change the world	109
10	Community walk-about : finding the hope in hopelessness	121
11	Transforming urban education through the Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student Achievement	135
12	Giving voice to urban parents : using a community-based survey to leverage school reform	157
13	Structural barriers and school reform : the perceptions of a group of working-class parents	173
14	Workshops with an attitude	193