Book Review

A Review of Race, Schools, and Hope: African Americans and School Choice After Brown By Lisa M. Stulberg

Sarah Klevan

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A Review of Learning in School-University Partnerships: Sociocultural Perspectives

Christopher G. Pupik Dean

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A Review of Improving the Odds: Developing Powerful Teaching Practices and a Culture of Learning in Urban High Schools By Thomas Del Prete

Shannon H. Andrus

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A Review of The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design By Ronald Lee Fleming

Christopher Steinmeier

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A Review of The Trouble With Black Boys... and Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education By Pedro Noguera

Jeremy Cutler

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A Review of Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society By Carola Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, and Irina Todorova

Zaynab Baalbaki

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A Review of Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics: Toward a Pedagogy for Social Justice By Eric Gutstein

Vivian Lim and Tanya Maloney

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Venkatesh, S. A., & Kassimir, R. (Eds.). (2007). Youth, globalization, and the law. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Jacqueline Flicker and Kathryn McGinn

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Turning up the volume on student voices

Listening to urban kids: School reform and the teachers they want. Bruce L. Wilson and H. Dickson Corbett. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001. 144 pp.

In our own words: Students' perspectives on school. Jeffrey J. Shultz and Alison Cook-Sather (Editors). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. 224 pp.

Shirley P. Brown
Haverford College

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Vitamins

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Changing Minds in Changing Times

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Beyond the School Yard

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Student Book Review of the Bluford Series

Alissa Williams

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Polsky, Schindel, Tabone. 2006. Drama Activities for K-6 Students: Creating Classroom Spirit. Maryland: Rowan & Littlefield Education

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Newberg, Norman A. (2006). The gift of education: How a tuition guarantee program changed the lives of inner city youth. Albany: State University of New York Press.

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"The great invention of the world:" Review of two books about writing

Shirley Brown

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Dennis Shirley. (1997). Community Organizing for Urban School Reform. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 352 pp.

Lauren Richter
University of Pennsylvania

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Ben-Porath, Sigal. 2006. Citizenship Under Fire: Democratic Education in Times of Conflict. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Carolyn Chernoff

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Rethinking Schools. (2006). Whose Wars? Teaching about the Iraq war and the war on terrorism. Rethinking Schools, Ltd.

Emily Gasoi

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Giduck, John. (2005). Terror at Beslan: A Russian Tragedy with Lessons for America’s School. Archangel Group, Inc.

Rena Harris

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Garlake, T. (2005) Dealing with Disasters - Teaching about disasters and development for ages 11 to 16. Oxford, UK: Oxfam Publishing.

Kimberly Heuschkel

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Ending Silence, Children's Visions and Racial Justice: A Review of Racism Explained to My Daughter

Lauren Silver

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Bell, D. (2004). Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform. New York: Oxford University Press.

Beth Wassell

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Meier, D., & Wood, G. (Eds.). (2004). Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act is Damaging our Children and our Schools. Boston: Beacon Press.

Jason Fritz

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Fine, M. (Producer), Roberts, R. (Artistic Director), Torre, M.E., & Bloom, J. (2004). Echoes of Brown: Youth Documenting and Performing the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education [DVD and Accompanying Book]. New York: Teachers College Press.

Lalitha Vasudevan

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Meier, D., & Wood, G. (Eds.). (2004). Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act is Damaging our Children and our Schools. Boston: Beacon Press.

Kate O'Donnell

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Darling-Hammond, L. & J. Baratz-Snowden. (2005). A Good Teacher in Every Classroom: Preparing the Highly Qualified Teachers our Children Deserve. San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons.

Andrea Bien

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Ladson-Billings, Gloria. Beyond the Big House: African American Educators on Teacher Education. New York: Teachers College.

Christina Collins

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Ladson-Billings, G. (2001). Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Kim Heuschkel

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Heller, Daniel A. (2004). Teachers Wanted: Attracting and Retaining Good Teachers. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Hilal Nakiboglu Isler

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Cushman, Kathleen. (2003). Fires in the Bathroom. New York: The New Press. Lecture – Harvard’s Graduate School of Education Multimedia Review

Page Fahrig-Pendse

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The Redesign of Urban School Systems: Case Studies in District Governance. Donald McAdams and Dan Katzir, Editors. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2013. 355 pp.

Review by Tom Szczesny, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

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Character Compass: How Powerful School Culture Can Point Students Toward Success. Scott Seider. Cambridge: Harvard University Press: 2012. 286 pp.

Reviewed by Chris Pupik Dean, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

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Giving Our Children a Fighting Chance: Poverty, Literacy and the Development of Information Capital. Susan B. Neuman and Donna C. Celano. New York: Teachers College Press, 2012. 164 pp.

Review by Megan Satterthwaite, Roxbury Prep Charter School

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A Search Past Silence: The Literacy of Young Black Men. David E. Kirkland. New York: Teachers College Press, 2013. 187 pp.

Reviewed by David E. Low, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

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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.

Reviewed by Gina A. Cappelletti, University of Pennsylvania

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Book Review: American School Reform: What Works, What Fails, and Why.

Reviewed by Rowan Machalow, University of Pennsylvania

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Book Review: Deep Knowledge: Learning to Teach Science for Understanding and Equity.

Reviewed by Amanda Cottone, University of Pennsylvania

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Those kids, our schools: Race and reform in an American high school. By S. R. Griffin. Harvard Education Press: Cambridge, 2015.

Reviewed by Alexander Hyres, University of Virginia

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Matthew Desmond. New York: Crown Publishers, 2016. 432 pp.

Reviewed by David Prudente
Northeastern University

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Enacting Adolescent Literacies Across Communities: Latino/a Scribes and Their Rites.

Sonia Nieto

University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Review of International Mobility and Educational Desire: Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore. Peidong Yang. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 136 pp.

Qiyang Zhang†
Johns Hopkins University, School of Education

Soumya Mittal†
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education & School of Social Policy & Practice

† authors contributed equally to this review

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Review of Critical Storytelling in Uncritical Times: Stories Disclosed in a Cultural Foundations of Education Course. Nicholas D. Hartlep and Brandon O. Hensley, Eds. Springer, 2015, 107 pp.

Deborah A. Douglas
Appalachian State University

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Book Review: Critical Race Theory in Education: A Scholar's Journey. Gloria Ladson-Billings. Teachers College Press, 2021, 233 pp.

David A. Harnish, Illinois State University

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