Voices in Urban Education

Learning Environments
VUE Number 19, Spring 2008

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Resources

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> Executive Summary

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Apple, M. 2001. Educating the “Right Way”: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality. New York and London: RoutledgeFalmer.

Ascher, C., and C. Maguire. 2007. Beating the Odds: How Thirteen NYC Schools Bring Low-Performing Ninth-Graders to Timely Graduation and College Enrollment. Providence, RI: Brown University, Annenberg Institute for School Reform.
> Report PDF [25 pages]

Barton, P. E. 2003. Parsing the Achievement Gap: Baselines for Tracking Progress. Princeton, NJ: Policy Information Center, Educational Testing Service.
> PDF, order print copy

Barton, P. E., R. J. Coley, and H. Wenglinsky. 1998. Order in the Classroom: Violence, Discipline, and Student Achievement. Princeton, NJ: Policy Information Center, Educational Testing Service.
> PDF, order print copy

Brady, K. P., S. Balmer, and D. Phenix. 2007. “School-Police Partnership Effectiveness in Urban Schools: An Analysis of New York City's Impact Schools Initiative,” Education and Urban Society 39: 455-478.
> Abstract, PDF, references

Brown, J. 2005. Education on Lockdown: The Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track. Washington, DC: Advancement Project.
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> Description, order print copy

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Citywide Council on High Schools. 2006. Annual Report, 2005-2006. New York: New York City Department of Education.
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Fielding, R., and P. Nair. 2005. The Language of School Design: Design Patterns for 21st Century Schools. Minneapolis, MN: DesignShare.

Gehl, J. 2007. Public Spaces: Public Life in the 21st Century. Podcast. Sydney, Australia: City of Sydney
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Harcourt, B. 2001. Illusions of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
> Description, order print copy

Horowitz, J. 2005. Inside High School Reform: Making Changes That Matter. Oakland, CA: WestEd.
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Hughes, K. L., M. Mechur Karp, B. J. Fermin, and T. R. Bailey. 2005. Pathways to College: Access and Success. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education.

Lemmel, D., and S. S. Seidel. 2007. “Alternative High Schools: Pioneering Promising Practices for Blending Academic and Extended Learning Opportunities,” Voices in Urban Education 16 (Summer).
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Lipman, P. 2004. High Stakes Education: Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform. New York: RoutledgeFalmer.

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Mukherjee, E. 2007. Criminalizing the Classroom: The Over-Policing of New York City Schools. New York: New York Civil Liberties Union.
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> Full article

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Nolan, K. Forthcoming. “A Critical Theoretical Approach to the Study of Urban School Discipline: The Culture of Control in a Bronx High School.” In Theory and Educational Research: Toward a Critical Social Explanation, edited by J. Anyon. New York: RoutledgeFalmer.

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