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VUE Number 19, Spring 2008

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Adelman, C. 1999. Answers in the Toolbox: Academic Intensity, Attendance Patterns, and Bachelor's Degree Attainment. Executive Summary. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.
> Executive Summary

Advancement Project and the Civil Rights Project, Harvard University. 2000. Opportunities Suspended: The Devastating Consequences of Zero Tolerance and School Discipline Policies. A report from the National Summit on Zero Tolerance Proceedings, Washington, DC, June 2000. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Civil Rights Project.

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.
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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.
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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.
> Executive summary, full report PDF [scroll to listing]

Brown, J. 2003. Derailed: The Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track. Washington DC: Advancement Project.
> Full report PDF [scroll to listing]

Bryk, A. S., V. E. Lee, and P. B. Holland. 1993. Catholic Schools and the Common Good. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
> Description, order print copy

Chubb, J. E., and T. E. Moe. 1990. Politics, Markets, and America's Schools. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
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Citywide Council on High Schools. 2006. Annual Report, 2005-2006. New York: New York City Department of Education.
> Full report

Freire, P. 1972. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin.

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
> Podcast

Harcourt, B. 2001. Illusions of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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Horowitz, J. 2005. Inside High School Reform: Making Changes That Matter. Oakland, CA: WestEd.
> Description, order print copy, author interview

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.

Mayer, D. P., J. E. Mullins, and M. T. Moore. 2000. Monitoring School Quality: An Indicators Report. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.
> Report PDF [75 pages]

McNeil, L. 2000. Contradictions of School Reform: Educational Costs of Standardized Testing. New York: Routledge.

Mukherjee, E. 2007. Criminalizing the Classroom: The Over-Policing of New York City Schools. New York: New York Civil Liberties Union.
> Report PDF [37 pages]

Nair, P. 2006. “Getting Beyond the School as Temple,” Edutopia (July).
> Full article

New York City Department of Education. 2007. Citywide Standards of Discipline and Intervention Measures (The Discipline Code and Bill of Student Rights and Responsibilities, K-12). New York: New York City Department of Education, Office of Instructional Publications.

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.

Nolan, K., and J. Anyon. 2004. “Learning to Do Time: Willis's Model of Cultural Reproduction in an Era of Post-Industrialism, Globalization, and Mass Incarceration.” In Learning to Labor in New Times, edited by N. Dolby and G. Dimitriadis, Chapter 8. New York: RoutledgeFalmer.

Oakes, J., J. Rogers, D. Silver, S. Valladares, V. Terriquez, P. McDonough, M. Renee, and M. Lipton. 2006. Removing the Roadblocks: Fair College Opportunities for All California Students. Los Angeles: University of California, UC/ACCORD and UCLA/IDEA.
> Executive summary and full report pdfs

Sable, J., and J. Hill. 2006. Overview of Public Elementary and Secondary Students, Staff, Schools, School Districts, Revenues, and Expenditures: School Year 2004-05 and Fiscal Year 2004. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

Siegel, D., H. Bel Hadj Amor, A. Zaltsman, and N. Fruchter. 2005. Assessing Success in New York City High Schools. Report by the New York University Institute for Education and Social Policy for New Visions for Public Schools. New York: New York University, Steinhardt School of Education, Institute for Education and Social Policy.

Skiba, R., and R. Peterson. 1999. “The Dark Side of Zero Tolerance: Can Punishment Lead to Safe Schools?” Phi Delta Kappan 80:372-382.

Thornburg, D. D. 2001. “Campfires in Cyberspace: Primordial Metaphors for Learning in the 21st Century,” Ed at a Distance 15, no. 6.
> Full article

Weinstein, M., R. Jacobowitz, C. Maguire, and M. Luekens. 2006. The Effectiveness of Small Schools. New York: New York University, Steinhardt School of Education, Institute for Education and Social Policy.