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Background information

Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education / Editor, James A. Banks, University of Washington.
Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC1099 .E38 2012 V.1
"The major aim of this encyclopedia is to describe the most important concepts, theories, research, policies, case studies, and programs at the pre-school through the postsecondary levels and their implications for educational reform. Diversity is defined broadly in this encyclopedia and includes race, ethnicity, social class, gender, sexual orientation (LGBT), religion, language, and exceptionality, which encompasses giftedness and disability." p. xlviii
Handbook of urban education / edited by H. Richard Milner IV & Kofi Lomotey.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5131 .H355 2014
International handbook of urban education / editors, William T. Pink and George W. Noblit.
Dordrecht, Netherlands : Springer, c2007.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC5115 .I57 2007 PT.1
The Praeger handbook of urban education / edited by Joe L. Kincheloe ... [et al.].
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5131 .P7 2006 V.1
21st century education : a reference handbook / edited by Thomas L. Good.
Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, c2008.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LA210 .A15 2008 V.1

New books

Public housing and school choice in a gentrified city : youth experiences of uneven opportunity / Molly Vollman Makris.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC205.5 .N45 M35 2015
The plight of invisibility : a community-based approach to understanding the educational experiences of urban Latina/os / Donna Marie Harris & Judy Marquez Kiyama ; with Nancy Ares [and 6 others] ; foreword by René Antrop-González.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2669 .H37 2015
Educating the urban race : the evolution of an American high school / Ericka J. Fisher.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5131 .F56 2015
The urban challenge in education : the story of charter school successes in Los Angeles / Joseph Scollo, Donna Stevens, and Ellen Pomella.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2806.36 .S36 2015
Intersectionality and urban education : identities, policies, spaces, and power / edited by Carl A. Grant (University of Wisconsin--Madison), Elisabeth Zwier (Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Francisco Morazán.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5115 .I57 2014
Our school : searching for community in the era of choice / Sam Chaltain ; foreword by Sir Ken Robinson.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LA255 .C487 2014
The first year of teaching : classroom research to increase student learning / Jabari Mahiri, Sarah Warshauer Freedman, editors.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2844.1 .N4 F55 2014
Practice-oriented.
This is not a test : a new narrative on race, class, and education / José Luis Vilson.
Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC196.5 .U6 V55 2014
College now! : what needs to be done to give urban students a real path to success / Scott Mendelsberg ; Tom Vander Ark, foreword.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5131 .M45 2014
Charter schools, race, and urban space : where the market meets grassroots resistance / Kristen L. Buras.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2806.36 .B86 2015
STEM and the city : a report on STEM education in the great American urban public school system / Clair T. Berube.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5129 .B47 2014
The quest for mastery : positive youth development through out-of-school programs / Sam M. Intrator, Don Siegel.
Cambridge, MA : Harvard Education Press, c2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC34.4 .I58 2014
Radical possibilities : public policy, urban education, and a new social movement / Jean Anyon.
2nd edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5131 .A56 2014
Breaking the cycle : how schools can overcome urban challenges / Nancy Brown Diggs ; foreword by Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC4093 .D39 D54 2013
The boy problem : educating boys in urban America, 1870-1970 / Julia Grant.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1397 .G73 2014
Parents and schools together : blueprint for success with urban youth / Kelly Wachel ; foreword by Todd Whitaker.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5141 .W33 2014
Digital leadership : changing paradigms for changing times / Eric Sheninger ; foreword by Yong Zhao.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028.3 .S4426 2014
Learning-focused leadership in action : improving instruction in schools and districts / Michael S. Knapp, Meredith I. Honig, Margaret L. Plecki, Bradley S. Portin, and Michael A. Copland.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2831.6 .K53 2014
Failing at school : lessons for redesigning urban high schools / Camille A. Farrington.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5131 .F35 2014
Practice-oriented.
Big-city school reforms : lessons from New York, Toronto, and London / Michael Fullan, Alan Boyle.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5115 .F88 2014
When middle-class parents choose urban schools : class, race, and the challenge of equity in public education / Linn Posey-Maddox.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5131 .P68 2014
The social construction of meaning : reading literature in urban English classrooms / John Yandell.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1575 .Y36 2014
Improving educational equity in urban contexts / Carlo Raffo.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5101 .R35 2014
Connecting with students : strategies for building rapport with urban learners / Crystal Higgs.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5115 .H44 2014
Practice-oriented.
Enter the alternative school : critical answers to questions in urban education / Alia R. Tyner-Mullings.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5131 .T96 2014
Ability, equity & culture : sustaining inclusive urban education reform / edited by Elizabeth B. Kozleski, Kathleen King Thorius.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1201 .A35 2014
Practice-oriented.
The redesign of urban school systems : case studies in district governance / edited by Donald R. McAdams and Dan Katzir.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5131 .R43 2013
The future of the urban community college : shaping the pathways to a multiracial democracy / Gunder Myran, Curtis L. Ivery, Michael H. Parsons, Charles Kinsley, editors.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2328 .N4 NO.162
Schools and urban revitalization : rethinking institutions and community development / [edited by] Kelly Patterson and Robert Mark Silverman.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5131 .S372 2014
Becoming teachers of inner-city students : life histories and teacher stories of committed white teachers / James C. Jupp.
Rotterdam ; Boston : Sense Publishers, c2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1775.2 .J87 2013

Journals

Urban education.
[Beverly Hills, Calif., Sage Publications]
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » 370.5 .U72 V.42 2007
"This ground-breaking publication provides thought-provoking commentary on key issues from gender-balanced and racially diverse perspectives."
The Urban review.
New York, APS Publications.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » 370.5 .U723 V.41:NO.1 2009
"A publication of the Center for Urban Education."

Databases

Education databases

ERIC [electronic resource] : the educational resources information center.
[Washington, DC : National Library of Education?, 199?-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Bibliographic database of educational resources including articles, reports, and curriculum.
Education full text [electronic resource].
[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Indexes and abstracts articles of English-language periodicals and books on education from 1983 on. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996 and is available for over half the 600 journals indexed.
Education week American education news site of record [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : Editorial Projects in Education, Inc.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Teachers College record book reviews [electronic resource].
Birmingham, AL : Teachers College Record
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
"Teachers College Record Book Reviews provides comprehensive reviews of the leading books in education and educational research by major scholars in these fields. "

Related Databases

Sociological abstracts.
[San Diego, etc., Sociological Abstracts, inc.]
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » HM1 .S67 V.52:NO.6 2004
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Websites

Institute for Urban and Minority Education

"For almost forty years, IUME has used advocacy, demonstration, evaluation, information dissemination, research and technical assistance to study and seek to improve the quality of life chances through education in the communities of urban and minority peoples. The Institute continues to focus on the implications of population diversity in the context of the demand for pluralistic competencies for the design and management of teaching and learning transactions in schools and other environments for education."

John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities

"The John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities (JGC) at Stanford University partners with communities to develop leadership, conduct research and effect change to improve the lives of youth. Our work is rooted in the principles of community youth development: a community only prospers when its young people prosper, and young people only flourish in a flourishing community. Specifically, the Center believes in working in deep partnership with communities; bridging the gap between research, practice and policy; generating actionable research; providing opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to contribute to research projects; and ultimately seeking to inform both the community at hand and the broader field about critical findings from our work."