At the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Lauri Johnson is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy and coauthor (with Sally Smith) of Dealing with Diversity through Multicultural Fiction: Library-Classroom Partnerships, and Mary E. Finn is former Director of the Urban Education Institute. Rebecca Lewis is Interim Assistant Provost of International Programs at the State University of New York College at Geneseo.

• PrefaceMary H. Gresham Introduction: Linking Theory, Practice, and Community in Urban School ReformLauri Johnson, Mary E. Finn, and Rebecca Lewis Call to Action: Promoting Educational Equity in Urban School Reform 1. The Racial Achievement Gap: How Can We Assure an Equity of Outcomes?Pedro Noguera 2. Things to Come: Teachers' Work and Urban School ReformDennis Carlson 3. Court-Ordered Reform of New York State School AidMichael A. Rebell 4. Connecting Community Development and Urban School ReformHenry Louis Taylor Jr. Linking Urban Schools to Their Communities 5. Creating Small Urban Schools: Expeditionary Learning as School ReformGreg Farrell and Michael J. McCarthy 6. Why the Arts Matter in Our SchoolsArnold Aprill 7. Art: An Educational Link Between School and CommunityMathias J. Schergen 8. City Voices, City Visions: Digital Video as Literacy/Learning Supertool in Urban ClassroomsSuzanne M. Miller and Suzanne Borowicz Reforming Teacher Education to Improve Urban Education 9. Teaching to Change the WorldJeannie Oakes 10. Community Walk-About: Finding the Hope in HopelessnessAnn Marie Lauricella 11. Transforming Urban Education through the Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student AchievementDennis Shirley University Partnerships for Parent Empowerment 12. Giving Voice to Urban Parents: Using a Community-Based Survey to Leverage School Reform Lauri Johnson 13. Structural Barriers and School Reform: The Perceptions of a Group of Working-Class Parents Gillian S. Richardson 14. Workshops with an AttitudePatrick J. Finn, Lauri Johnson, and Mary E. Finn Index

At the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Lauri Johnson is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy and coauthor (with Sally Smith) of Dealing with Diversity through Multicultural Fiction: Library-Classroom Partnerships, and Mary E. Finn is former Director of the Urban Education Institute. Rebecca Lewis is Interim Assistant Provost of International Programs at the State University of New York College at Geneseo.

• PrefaceMary H. Gresham Introduction: Linking Theory, Practice, and Community in Urban School ReformLauri Johnson, Mary E. Finn, and Rebecca Lewis Call to Action: Promoting Educational Equity in Urban School Reform 1. The Racial Achievement Gap: How Can We Assure an Equity of Outcomes?Pedro Noguera 2. Things to Come: Teachers' Work and Urban School ReformDennis Carlson 3. Court-Ordered Reform of New York State School AidMichael A. Rebell 4. Connecting Community Development and Urban School ReformHenry Louis Taylor Jr. Linking Urban Schools to Their Communities 5. Creating Small Urban Schools: Expeditionary Learning as School ReformGreg Farrell and Michael J. McCarthy 6. Why the Arts Matter in Our SchoolsArnold Aprill 7. Art: An Educational Link Between School and CommunityMathias J. Schergen 8. City Voices, City Visions: Digital Video as Literacy/Learning Supertool in Urban ClassroomsSuzanne M. Miller and Suzanne Borowicz Reforming Teacher Education to Improve Urban Education 9. Teaching to Change the WorldJeannie Oakes 10. Community Walk-About: Finding the Hope in HopelessnessAnn Marie Lauricella 11. Transforming Urban Education through the Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student AchievementDennis Shirley University Partnerships for Parent Empowerment 12. Giving Voice to Urban Parents: Using a Community-Based Survey to Leverage School Reform Lauri Johnson 13. Structural Barriers and School Reform: The Perceptions of a Group of Working-Class Parents Gillian S. Richardson 14. Workshops with an AttitudePatrick J. Finn, Lauri Johnson, and Mary E. Finn Index

At the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Lauri Johnson is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy and coauthor (with Sally Smith) of Dealing with Diversity through Multicultural Fiction: Library-Classroom Partnerships, and Mary E. Finn is former Director of the Urban Education Institute. Rebecca Lewis is Interim Assistant Provost of International Programs at the State University of New York College at Geneseo.

• PrefaceMary H. Gresham Introduction: Linking Theory, Practice, and Community in Urban School ReformLauri Johnson, Mary E. Finn, and Rebecca Lewis Call to Action: Promoting Educational Equity in Urban School Reform 1. The Racial Achievement Gap: How Can We Assure an Equity of Outcomes?Pedro Noguera 2. Things to Come: Teachers' Work and Urban School ReformDennis Carlson 3. Court-Ordered Reform of New York State School AidMichael A. Rebell 4. Connecting Community Development and Urban School ReformHenry Louis Taylor Jr. Linking Urban Schools to Their Communities 5. Creating Small Urban Schools: Expeditionary Learning as School ReformGreg Farrell and Michael J. McCarthy 6. Why the Arts Matter in Our SchoolsArnold Aprill 7. Art: An Educational Link Between School and CommunityMathias J. Schergen 8. City Voices, City Visions: Digital Video as Literacy/Learning Supertool in Urban ClassroomsSuzanne M. Miller and Suzanne Borowicz Reforming Teacher Education to Improve Urban Education 9. Teaching to Change the WorldJeannie Oakes 10. Community Walk-About: Finding the Hope in HopelessnessAnn Marie Lauricella 11. Transforming Urban Education through the Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student AchievementDennis Shirley University Partnerships for Parent Empowerment 12. Giving Voice to Urban Parents: Using a Community-Based Survey to Leverage School Reform Lauri Johnson 13. Structural Barriers and School Reform: The Perceptions of a Group of Working-Class Parents Gillian S. Richardson 14. Workshops with an AttitudePatrick J. Finn, Lauri Johnson, and Mary E. Finn Index