Building Smart Education Systems: VUE Number 26, Winter 2010
After School Corporation. 1999. After-School Programs: An Analysis of Need, Current Research, and Public Opinion. New York: After School Corporation.
Annenberg Institute for School Reform.2001. The Promise of Urban Schools: In Search of Excellence. Providence, RI: Brown University, Annenberg Institute for School Reform.
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Anyon, J. 1997. Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform. New York: Teachers College Press.
> Description, reviews, ordering information
Appiah, K.A. 1994. “Identity, Authenticity, and Survival: Multicultural Societies and Social Reproduction.” In Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition, edited by A. Gutman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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Aspen Institute and Annenberg Institute for School Reform. 2006. Strong Foundation, Evolving Challenges: A Case Study to Support Leadership Transition in the Boston Public Schools. Washington, DC: Aspen Institute.
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> Opinion available online
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> Opinion available online
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> Information online
Buckingham, D. 2000. After the Death of Childhood: Growing Up in the Age of Electronic Media. Oxford, UK, and Malden,MA: Polity Press/Blackwell.
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California Department of Education, Healthy Start & After School Partnerships. 2002. California’s Before and After School Learning and Safe Neighborhoods Partnerships Program: Fact Sheet. Sacramento, CA: CDE.
Campaign for Fiscal Equity. 2000. “Reforming New York State’s Flawed School Finance System,” In Evidence: Policy Reports from the CFE Trial, vol. 2.
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CFE v. State of New York. 2002. Decision, Justice Alfred Lerner, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York.
> CFE Web site
CFE v. State of New York. 2001. Decision, Justice Leland DeGrasse, Supreme Court of the State of New York, 719 N.Y. S.2d 475.
> CFE Web site
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Cowen Institute. 2008. The State of Public Education in New Orleans: 2008 Report. New Orleans, LA: Tulane University, Scott S. Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives.
> Summary, full report PDF downloads available
C. S. Mott Foundation. 2007. A New Day for Learning: A Report from the Time, Learning, and Afterschool Task Force. Flint, MI: C. S. Mott Foundation.
> Available online
Darling-Hammond, Linda. 2001. “Apartheid in American Education: How Opportunity Is Rationed to Children of Color in the United States.” In Racial Profiling and Punishing in U.S. Public Schools, edited by Tammy Johnson, Jennifer Emiko Boyden, and William J. Pittz, pp. 39–44.Oakland, CA: Applied Research Center.
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Elmore, Richard. 2002. “Testing Trap: The Single Largest – and Possibly Most Destructive – Federal Intrusion into America’s Public Schools,” Harvard Magazine.
> Full article online
Fallis, R., and S. Opotow. 2002. “Are Students Failing School or Are Schools Failing Students? Class Cutting in High School,” Journal of Social Issues (special issue on Youth Perspectives on Violence and Injustice, edited by C. Daiute and M. Fine).
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids. 2000. America’s After- School Choice: The Prime Time for Juvenile Crime Or Youth Enrichment and Achievement. Washington,DC: Fight Crime: Invest in Kids.
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Fine, Michelle. 1991. Framing Dropouts. Albany: SUNY Press.
> Summary, ordering information
Fine, M., A. Burns, Y. Payne, and M. E. Torre. 2002. “Civic Lessons: The Color and Class of Betrayal.” Unpublished manuscript. New York: The Graduate School, CUNY.
Fine, M., N. Freudenberg, Y. Payne, T. Perkins, K. Smith, and K. Wanzer. 2002. “‘Anything Can Happen with Police Around’: Urban Youth Evaluate Strategies of Surveillance in Public Places,” Journal of Social Issues (special issue on Youth Perspectives on Violence and Injustice, edited by C. Daiute and M. Fine).
Fine, Michelle, and Linda Powell. 2001. “Small Schools: An Anti-Racist Intervention in Urban America.” In Racial Profiling and Punishment in U.S. Public Schools, edited by Tammy Johnson, Jennifer Emiko Boyden, and William J. Pittz, pp. 45–50. Oakland, CA: Applied Research Center.
Fine, Michelle, Maria Elena Torre, Kathy Boudin, Iris Bowen, Judith Clark, Donna Hylton, Migdalia Martinez, Missy, Rosemary A. Roberts, Pamela Smart, and Debora Upegui. 2001. “Changing Minds: The Impact of College in Prison.” The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Fruchter, N., and R. Gray. 2006. “Community Engagement: Mobilizing Constituents to Demand and Support Educational Improvement,” Voices in Urban Education 13 (Fall).
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Fuhrman, S. and M. Lazerson., eds. 2005. The Institutions of American Democracy: The Public Schools. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Gagen, E. 2000. “Playing the Part: Performing Gender in America’s Primary Schools.” In Children’s Geographies: Playing, Living, Learning, edited by S. Holloway and G. Valentine, pp. 213–229. London and New York: Routledge.
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> Abstract
Gordon, E. W., and B. L. Bridglall. 2005. “The Challenge, Context, and Preconditions of Academic Development at High Levels.” In Supplementary Education: The Hidden Curriculum of High Academic Achievement, edited by E. W. Gordon, B. L. Bridglall, and A. S. Meroe. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
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Grady, M. K., and C. V. Willie. 1986. Metropolitan School Desegregation: A Case Study of the St. Louis Area Voluntary Transfer Program. Bristol, IN: Wyndham Hall Press.
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> Opinion online
Hall, S. 1996. “Who Needs Identity?” Introduction to Questions of Cultural Identity, edited by S. Hall and P. du Gay, pp. 1–17. London: Sage.
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Halpern, R. 2002. “A Different Kind of Child Development Institution: The History of After- School Programs for Low-Income Children,” Teachers College Record 104:2, 178–211.
> Abstract, membership, ordering information
Hill, P. T., C. Campbell, and J. Harvey. 2000. It Takes a City: Getting Serious about Urban School Reform. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
> Description, sample chapter, ordering information
Hirota, J. M., and L. E. Jacobs. 2003. Vital Voices: Building Constituencies for Public School Reform. New York: Academy for Educational Development.
Hirschman, Albert. 1990. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: A Response to Declines in Firms, Organizations, and States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
> Description, reviews, ordering information
Hochschild, Jennifer L. 1995. Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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Hochschild, Jennifer L. Forthcoming. “Can Public Schools Promote the American Dream for Poor Children?” Journal of Social Issues.
Hurtado, Aída, Craig Haney, and Eugene Garcia. 1998. “Becoming the Mainstream: Merit, Changing Demographics, and Higher Education in California,” La Raza Law Journal 10:2 (symposium issue on Latinos at the School Door: California’s Challenge to Affirmative Action), 645–690.
Kozol, Jonathan. 1991. Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools. New York: Crown Publishing.
McAdams, D. R. 2006. “Urban School Boards and Their Communities,” Voices in Urban Education 13 (Fall).
> VUE 13 PDF [47 pages]
McAlister, S., K. Mediratta, and S. Shah. 2009. Rethinking the Teacher Pipeline for an Urban Public School System: Chicago ACORN. Providence, RI: Brown University, Annenberg Institute for School Reform.
> Summary and case study PDFs, description, findings
Meador, D. 1959. “The Constitution and the Assignment of Pupils to Public Schools,” Virginia Law Review 45.
Mediratta, K., S. Shah, and S. McAlister. 2008. Organized Communities, Stronger Schools: A Preview of Research Findings. Providence, RI: Brown University, Annenberg Institute for School Reform.
> Description, PDFs
Meier, Deborah. 2002. In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization. Boston: Beacon Press.
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Milliken v. Bradley. 1974. U.S. Supreme Court, 418 U.S. 717.
> Opinion available online
Milliken v. Bradley (Milliken II). 1977. U.S. Supreme Court, 433 U.S. 267.
> Opinion available online
Mizell, Linda. 2002. “Horace Had It Right: The Stakes Are Still High for Students of Color.” In Racial Profiling and Punishing in U.S. Public Schools, edited by Tammy Johnson, Jennifer Emiko Boyden, and William J. Pittz, pp. 27–33. Oakland, CA: Applied Research Center.
> Abstract, link to download
Ogletree, C. J. 2004. All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education. New York: W. W. Norton.
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Orfield, G. 2004. “Brown Misunderstood.” In The Unfinished Agenda of Brown v. Board of Education, edited by the editors of Black Issues in Higher Education with James Anderson and Dara N. Byrne. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
> Reviews, excerpt, ordering information
Orfield, G., and C. Lee. 2004. “Brown at 50: King’s Dream or Plessy’s Nightmare?” Cambridge, MA: Civil Rights Project, Harvard University.
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Orfield, Gary (with Jennifer Arenson, Tara Jackson, Christine Bohrer, Dawn Gavin, and Emily Kalejs). 1997/2001. “City-Suburban Desegregation: Parent and Student Perspectives in Metropolitan Boston.” Cambridge, MA: Civil Rights Project, Harvard University.
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Plessy v. Ferguson. 1896. U.S. Supreme Court, 163 U.S. 537.
> Opinion available online
Poe-Yamagata, E., and S. Jones. 2000. And Justice for Some. Building Blocks for Youth Report. Washington, DC: Youth Law Center.
> Major findings, full report download
Regents and State Education Department. 2001. New York: The State of Learning. Report to the Governor and the Legislature. Albany: New York State Department of Education.
Rothman, R., ed. 2008. “A Smart System in London.” Voices in Urban Education 21 (Fall).
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State Department of Education. U.S. Census Bureau Current Population Survey. 2000. “Income in 1999 by Educational Attainment for People Eighteen Years Old and Over, by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin (Table 8).”
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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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Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education. 1971. U.S. Supreme Court, 402 U.S. 1. Woodward, C. V. 1974. The Strange Career of Jim Crow, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
> Opinion available online
Thernstrom, A., and Thernstrom, S. 2004. No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning. New York: Simon & Schuster.
> Summary, excerpt, ordering information
University of California at Irvine, Department of Education, and California Department of Education, Healthy Start & After School Partnerships. 2002. Evaluation of California’s After School Learning and Safe Neighborhoods Partnership Program: 1999–2001 (Preliminary Report). Irvine, Ca: UC & CDE.
U.S. Census Bureau Current Population Survey. 2000. “Income in 1999 by Educational Attainment for People Eighteen Years Old and Over, by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin (Table 8).”
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U.S. Department of Labor. 2001. “Union Members Summary.” Publication no. USDL 01–21. Bureau of Labor Statistics Online News.
U.S. Department of Education. 2002. “The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Executive Summary.”
> Executive summary, PDF download
U.S. Department of Education. 2000. 21st Century Community Learning Centers: Providing Quality Afterschool Learning Opportunities for America’s Families. Washington, DC: U.S.GPO.
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Wells, Amy S., and I. Serna. 1996. “The Politics of Culture: Understanding Local Political Resistance to Detracking in Racially Mixed Schools,” Harvard Educational Review 66:1 (Spring), 93–118.
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Williams v. State of California. 2000. Plaintiff ’s first amended complaint, Superior Court of the State of California, No. 312236.
> Summary, legal documents available
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