MAKING URBAN EDUCATION WORK

Urban Schools, Public Will by the Annenberg Institute's Norm Fruchter draws on a rich array of research and personal experience to examine why, fifty years beyond Brown v. Board, urban districts have failed poor students of color and what must be done to transform our city schools.
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MOVING KIDS FROM BASIC TO PROFICIENT
Voices in Urban Education 14, Winter 2007

What, exactly, is proficiency? What would it take to bring all students to that level, and what role would organizations outside of schools play? This issue of Voices in Urban Education offers five perspectives on what "proficiency" looks like and how students' learning, in and out of school, can help them reach that goal.
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ENGAGING COMMUNITIES
Voices in Urban Education 13,

Community Engagement: Mobilizing Constituents to Demand and Support Educational Improvement by Norm Fruchter and Richard Gray.
Community engagement is the active mobilization of organized groups around the common goal of improving education. Engaged communities can support and sustain reforms — and disengaged communities can jeopardize them.
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