Communities and Schools
VUE Number 23, Spring 2009

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Altshuler, S. J., and T. Schmautz. 2006. “No Hispanic Student Left Behind: The Consequences of ‘High Stakes’ Testing,” Children and Schools 28, no. 1:5-14.
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Boyarsky, B. 1998. “Students’ Gripes about Schools Bring Results,” Los Angeles Times (February 9), sec. Metro; PART-B; Metro Desk.

Casserly, M. 2007. No Child Left Behind in America’s Great City Schools: Five Years and Counting. Washington, DC: Council of the Great City Schools.
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Chapman, L. H. 2007. “An Update on No Child Left Behind and National Trends in Education,” Arts Education Policy Review 109, no. 1:25-36.
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Citizen Commission on Academic Success for Boston Children. 2006. Transforming the Boston Public Schools: A Roadmap for the New Superintendent (June). Boston, MA: Citizen Commission on Academic Success for Boston Children.
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Clarke, S. E., R. E. Hero, M. S. Sidney, L. R. Fraga, and B. A. Erlichson. 2006. Multiethnic Moments: The Politics of Urban Education Reform. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
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CNN.com. 2002. “Foundations Yank Funding to Pittsburgh Schools,” CNN.com.

Communities for Educational Equity. 2005. The Schools We Deserve. Los Angeles, CA: Families in Schools.

Critical Friends of the Boston Public Schools. 1997. Status Report on Boston’s Public Schools after Two Years of Reform. Boston, MA: Critical Friends of the Boston Public Schools.

Education Trust-West. 2004. The A-G Curriculum: College-Prep? Work-Prep? Life-Prep: Understanding and Implementing a Rigorous Core Curriculum for All. Oakland, CA: Education Trust-West.

Fraga, L. R., J. A. Garcia, R. E. Hero, M. Jones- Correa, V. Martinez-Ebers, and G. M. Segura. 2006. Latino National Survey (LNS), 2006 [Computer file]. ICPSR20862-v1. Miami, FL: Geoscape International [producer], 2006. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008- 05-27.
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Grogan, P. S., and T. Proscio. 2000. Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
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Hayasaki, E. 2005. “College Prep Idea Approved in L.A.; School Board Votes to Require Students, with Some Exceptions, to Take Classes Needed to Enter State Universities. Some Teachers Object,” Los Angeles Times (June 15), sec. B.
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Henig, J. R., R. C. Hula, M. Orr, and D. S. Pedescleaux. 2001. The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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Henig, J. R., and C. N. Stone. 2007. “Civic Capacity and Education Reform: The Case for School-Community Realignment.” In City Schools: How Districts and Communities Can Create Smart Education Systems, edited by Robert Rothman, pp. 117-136. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
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Henig, J. R. 2007. Mayoral Control: What We Can and Cannot Learn from Other Cities. Fund for Public Advocacy, the Public Advocacy Project. New York: Commission on School Governance.
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Hill, P. T., A. E. Wise, and L. Shapiro. 1989. Educational Progress: Cities Mobilize to Improve Their Schools. Santa Monica, CA: Rand.
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Jennings, J., and D. S. Rentner. 2006. “How Public Schools Are Impacted by ‘No Child Left Behind,’” Education Digest (December), pp. 4-9.
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Krashen, S. 2001. “Bush’s Bad Idea for Bilingual Ed,” Rethinking Schools Online (Summer)
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Liberty Hill Foundation. 2000. Liberty Hill Foundation Newsletter (Winter).

Martinez-Ebers, V. 2007. “Latino Involvement, Aspirations and Expectations for Education: Does the Evidence Support the Conventional Wisdom?” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (August 31-September 3), Chicago, IL.

Mayor’s Commission on Public Education. 2003. Keeping the Promise: The Case for Reform in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. Pittsburgh: Mayor‘s Commission on Public Education (September).

Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund. 2008. Preserving Integration Options for Latino Children: A Manual for Educators, Civil Rights Leaders, and the Community. Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles (February). Oakland, CA: Regents of the University of California.
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Minow, M. 2003. “Public and Private Partnerships: Accounting for the New Religion,” Harvard Law Review 116, no. 1:1229-1273.

NYC Coalition for Educational Justice. 2007. New York City’s Middle-Grade Schools: Platforms for Success or Pathways to Failure? New York: NYCCEJ.
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NYC Coalition for Educational Justice. 2009. Looming Crisis or Historic Opportunity? Meeting the Challenge of the Regents Graduation Standards. New York: NYCCEJ.
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Oakes, J., J. Mendoza, and D. Silver. 2004. College Opportunity Indicators: Informing and Monitoring California’s Progress toward Equitable College Access. ACCORD Public Policy Series PB-004-0804. Los Angeles, CA: University of California All Campus Consortium On Research For Diversity.
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Orfield, G. and C. Lee. 2005. Why Segregation Matters: Poverty and Educational Inequality. Cambridge, MA: Civil Rights Project, Harvard University.

Pederson, P. V. 2007. “What Is Measured Is Treasured: The Impact of the No Child Left Behind Act on Nonassessed Subjects,” Clearing House 80, no. 6 (July/August):287-291.

Pew Hispanic Center/Kaiser Family Foundation. 2004. National Survey of Latinos: Education (January). Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center, Pew Research Center.
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Portz, J., L. Stein, and R. Jones. 1999. City Schools and City Politics: Institutions and Leadership in Pittsburgh, Boston, and St. Louis. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
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Reville, S. P. (ed). 2007. A Decade of Urban School Reform: Persistence and Progress in the Boston Public Schools. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
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Rubin, J. 2005. “School Board Delays Vote to Put All Students on College Prep Track,” Los Angeles Times (May 25), sec. B.
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Shirley, D., and M. Evans. 2007. “Community Organizing and No Child Left Behind.” In Transforming the City: Community Organizing and the Challenge of Political Change, edited by Marion Orr, pp. 109-133. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.

Smyth, T. S. 2008. “Who Is No Child Left Behind Leaving Behind?” Clearing House 81, no. 3:133-137.

Stone, C. 1998. Changing Urban Education. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
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Stone, C. N., J. R. Henig, B. D. Jones, and C. Pierannunzi. 2001. Building Civic Capacity: The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
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Thomas, C. 2001. “Getting the City Schools Back on Track,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (February 21).

United Way of Greater Los Angeles 2007. The A-G Story: Lessons from a Grassroots Movement for Educational Equity in Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA: United Way of Greater Los Angeles.
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U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. 2007a. “The Nation’s Report Card: 2007 Trial Urban District Assessment in Mathematics”
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U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. 2007b. “The Nations’s Report Card: Trial Urban District Assessment in Reading 2007”
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