Intellective Competence

Voices in Urban Education, Winter 2007
by Edmund W. Gordon

The ability to use knowledge to engage and solve problems, not just acquire knowledge, is increasingly the currency of advanced societies. The goal should be to develop such abilities in a broader range of young people.

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Urban Schools, Public Will

Making Education Work for All Our Children

A new book by the Annenberg Institute's, Norm Fruchter argues that our national failure to carry out the Brown mandate has produced segregated urban school systems that fail poor students of color.

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Equity After Katrina

VUE Number 10, Winter 06

This issue of Voices in Urban Education looks at the deeply entrenched educational inequities highlighted by Hurricane Katrina and at how we can ensure equity and excellence for all children.

• Educational Equity, after Katrina (full text) by Robert Rothman


• Now They're Wet: Hurricane Katrina as Metaphor for Social and Educational Neglect (excerpt) by Gloria Ladson-Billings


• The Real Crisis in Education: Failing to Link Excellence and Equity (excerpt) by Charles V. Willie


• Segregation and Its Calamitous Effects: America's "Apartheid" Schools (full text) by Jonathan Kozol


• Transformation, Not Tinkering: School Reform after Hurricane Katrina (excerpt) by Dennie Palmer Wolf and Hal Smith


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Getting to Equity

VUE Number 11, Spring 06

This issue of Voices in Urban Education looks at the difficult conversations and actions that must take place to get to true equity and excellence for all young people.

• New Ways to Talk about Equity (full text) by Robert Rothman


• Broaching the Subject: How to Have a Conversation about Equity and Excellence (full text with audio clips) by Linda Powell Pruitt and Kenneth W. Jones


• Honesty, Scholarship, and Dialogue: Going to Scale or Cultural Transformation? (excerpt) by Jonny Skye Njie


• First Ask the Students: A New Lens on Equity and Excellence in Public Schools (excerpt with student photos ) by Adam Levner


• Coming Together: Looking across Sectors for Answers to the Dropout Question (excerpt) by Monica Teixeira de Sousa, Michael D. Évora, Tonya M. Glantz, Brother Michael Reis, and Mike Capalbo


• The Role of National Organizations and the Federal Government in Promoting Equity and Excellence (excerpt) by Michael Holzman


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