Volume 11 Issue 2 (Summer 2014) | Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education

Lorena R. Munoz, Ed.D. candidate, Florida International University
Cynthia Pellegrini-Lafont, Ed.D. candidate, Florida International University
Elizabeth Cramer, Ph.D., Florida International University

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Rewriting the Script: Multiple Modalities in a High School Humanities Classroom

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Joshua Block, Science Leadership Academy

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Integrating Aesthetic Education to Nurture Literacy Development

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Jeanne Peloso, Ph.D., Lehman College, City University of New York

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“In the Swell of Wandering Words”: The arts as a vehicle for youth and educators’ inquiries into the Holocaust memoir Night

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Rob Simon and the Teaching to Learn Project:

Ashley Bailey, Jason Brennan, Antonino Calarco, Kevin Clarke, Will Edwards, Catherine Fujiwara, Amir Kalan, Julia Kruja, Emily McInnes-Greenberg, and Anna Pisecny

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Practitioner Research as “Praxidents” Waiting to Happen

Andrew J. Schiera, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

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“Who has Family Business?” Exploring the Role of Empathy in Student-Teacher Interactions

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Chezare A. Warren, Ph.D., Michigan State University

Susan Lessner, M.Ed., Thornton Fractional School District (Calumet, IL)

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Urban Catholic Education: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times. Thomas C. Hunt, David J. O’Brien, and Timothy Walch, eds. New York: Peter Lang, 2013. 221 pp.

Book Review

Reviewed by Gina A. Cappelletti, University of Pennsylvania

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