City Kids, City Schools: More Reports from the Front Row
A follow-up to the classic collection on the realities of teaching and learning in urban schools.\ \ Of the approximately 50 million public school students in the United States, more than half are in urban schools. A contemporary companion to City Kids, City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row, this new and timely collection has been compiled by four of the country's most prominent urban educators. Contributors including Sandra Cisneros, Jonathan Kozol, Sapphire, and Patricia J. Williams...
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A follow-up to the classic collection on the realities of teaching and learning in urban schools.Of the approximately 50 million public school students in the United States, more than half are in urban schools. A contemporary companion to City Kids, City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row, this new and timely collection has been compiled by four of the country's most prominent urban educators. Contributors including Sandra Cisneros, Jonathan Kozol, Sapphire, and Patricia J. Williams provide some of the best writing on life in city schools and neighborhoods. Young people and practicing teachers, poets and scholars, social critics and journalists offer unique takes on topics ranging from culturally relevant teaching and scripted curricula to the criminalization of youth, gentrification, and the inequities of school funding.In the words of Sonia Nieto, City Kids, City Schools "challenge[s] the conventional wisdom of what it means to teach in urban schools."
Foreword Ruby Dee ixPrologue: "A Talk to Teachers" James Baldwin xiiiIntroduction xxiiiCity KidsIntroduction William Ayers 3from Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago LeAlan Jones David Isay 8from Holler If You Hear Me Gregory Michie 10from Push Sapphire 19"descendancy" Mayda del Valle 28from The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream Sampson Davis 31"morning papers" Marlon Unas Esguerra 37"Four Skinny Trees" Sandra Cisneros 41"To 'See' Again" Luis J. Rodriguez 43City TeachersIntroduction Gregory Michie 55"Building Community from Chaos" Linda Christensen 60"Mr. B" William Ayers 74"One of 'These Children'" Monique Redeaux 85"Are Those Real?" Anafaith Lubliner 92"The Curie 12: A Case for Teacher Activism" Katie Hogan 97"daddy in jail" TyehimbaJess 102"Everything Flowers" Lisa Espinosa 104"Lessons from Teachers" Lisa Delpit 113City Classrooms, City SchoolsIntroduction Pedro A. Noguera 139from The Shame of the Nation Jonathon Kozol 145"'Yes, But How Do We Do It?': Practicing Culturally Relevant Pedagogy" Gloria Ladson-Billings 162"Desde Entonces, Soy Chicana: A Mexican Immigrant Student Resists Subtractive Schooling" Angela Valenzuela 178"What Teachers Need to Know About Poverty" Sue Books 184"disconnect: 1984 & the failure of education or CPS gets an F U" Kevin Coval 195"'Comin' from the School of Hard Knocks': Hip-hop and the Revolution of English Classrooms in City Schools" Ernest Morrell Jeff Duncan-Andrade 197"Parents as Writers: Transforming the Role of Parents in Urban Schools" Janise Hurtig 207"NCLB's Selective Vision of Equality: Some Gaps Count More Than Others" Stan Karp 219City Issues: Beyond the School's WallsIntroduction Gloria Ladson-Billings 229"Education in Our Dying Cities" Grace Lee Boggs 235"Unnatural Disasters: Race and Poverty" Michael Eric Dyson 241"And What Will Become of Children Like Miguel Fernandez?: Education, Immigration, and the Future of Latinos in the United States" Pedro A. Noguera 255"Education and the New Urban Workforce in a Global City" Pauline Lipman 273"brooklyn" Suheir Hammad 287"Little House in the 'Hood" Patricia J. Williams 290"Race War: Policing, Incarceration, and the Containment of Black Youth" Bakari Kitwana 294"Remembrance: Keeping Kids at the Center of Educational Policy" Wayne Au 305"Putting Education at the Center" Jean Anyon 310Afterword: The First Day Jeff Chang 325About the Editors 328Permissions 331Index 335
