Volume 14 Issue 1 (Fall 2017) - The 15 years of Urban Education: A special anniversary edition of the Journal of Perspectives on Urban Education

Saving Urban Children: Revisiting the Mission of Urban Education in 2017

Invited Commentary

Diana Slaughter Kotzin
University of Pennsylvania

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The Black Lives Matter Movement and Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Invited Commentary

Marybeth Gasman
University of Pennsylvania

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Counterstereotypic Identity Among High-Achieving Black Students

Invited Commentary

Vinay Harpalani
Savannah Law School

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A Study of Guided Urban Field Experiences for Pre-Service Teachers

Feature Article

Meg White
Stockton University

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Constraints and Negotiations: TFA, Accountability, and Scripted Programs in Urban Schools

Feature Article

Kara M. Kavanagh
James Madison University

Teresa R. Fisher-Ari
Georgia State University

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Student Achievement Outcomes of Immigrants and English Language Learners in an Urban Classroom: A Case Study of Great Strides and Hope

Feature Article

Benedict Lazarus Adams
Indiana University School of Education at IUPUI

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Continuing HBCUs’ Historical Commitment to Personnel Preparation: Preparing Transition Professionals to Serve Students of Color with Disabilities

Lisa Maria Grillo, Antonio L. Ellis and Jaquial D. Durham
Howard University

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Student Engagement in High-Stakes Accountability Systems

Wendy Cavendish
University of Miami

Adrián Márquez, Mary Roberts, Kristen Suarez & Wesley Lima
Miami-Dade County Public Schools

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A New Educational Perspective: The Case of Singapore

Voices from the Field

Daniel C. Kent
Yale-NUS College

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Confronting and Healing from Racial Trauma in the Classroom: Reflections on a Racial Literacy Collaboration in a Project-Based Learning High School Advisory

Voices from the Field

Kelsey M. Jones and Jordan Adler
University of Pennsylvania

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Trying, choice, social conformity and pride?

Voices from the Field

Danielle Annett
University of Connecticut

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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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