Global Perspectives on Issues and Solutions in Urban Education

Petra A. Robinson, Louisiana State UniversityAyana Allen-Handy, Drexel UniversityAmber Bryant, University of North Carolina at CharlotteChance W. Lewis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• Chapter 1. Global Perspectives on Issues and Solutions in Urban Education; Petra A. Robinson, Ayana Allen-Handy, Amber Bryant, and Chance W. Lewis.Section I. Innovations In Curriculum Design, Development, And Delivery: Solutions For Building 21st Century Skills, Motivation, And Student Success.Chapter 2. Hip Hop Music in the Classroom: A Motivational Tool for African American Student Success in Schools? Felicia M. Gangloff-Bailey and Kimberly Edelin Freeman.Chapter 3. I Code Therefore I Am: The Sociotechnical Narrative of a Coding Curriculum in Bangalore; Eric Byker.Chapter 4. Students' Attitudes, Teaching Styles and Methodologies and the Impact They Have on Students' Performance in CSEC Geography; Charlene P. Stoddart.Section II. Institutional Structures And Systems Affecting Teacher Preparation And Students.Chapter 5. Examining Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Through Intentional Internship Placements Within Partnership and PDS Schools; Christie Martin and Michele Myers.Chapter 6. Using Cross-National Education Study Tours to Enhance Global Competent Leadership: Reframing Study Tours of Urban Schools; Veronica Holly, Phillip A. Smith, Sir Alasdair MacDonald, and Andrew Millin.Chapter 7. Alternative Teacher Certification: A Case Study on Perceptions of Preparedness to Teach Diverse Populations; YaSheka Adams and Petra A. Robinson.Chapter 8. White Teacher Racism: Its Effects on African Caribbean Male Students in English Secondary Schools; Dennis G. Francis.Chapter 9. Urban Islands: How Social Capital Saves Lives; Derrick Robinson.Section III. Interventions For Employment And Career Readiness.Chapter 10. Experience is a Good Teacher: Using Narratives as an Employment Intervention; Porscha Jackson.Chapter 11. Building and Measuring Youth Career Readiness in Disadvantaged Communities; Tracey Rizzuto, Anne Sang, and Carly Penn.Section IV. Critical Solutions And Charting A Way Forward.Chapter 12. Critical Solutions and Charting a Way Forward; Paula Barbel.Chapter 13. Urban Youth/International Scholars: Critical Solutions in Support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals; Ayana Allen-Handy, Shawnna Thomas-EL, Tahmidul Bhuiyan, Xavier Carroll, Eva Karlen, Isabel Medlock, and Imani Weeks.About the Authors.