"Handbook Of Urban Education | Education

This second edition of the Handbook of Urban Education offers a fresh fluid and diverse range of perspectives from which the authors describe analyze and offer recommendations for urban education in the US. Each of the seven sections includes an introduction providing an overview and contextualization of the contents. In addition there are discussion questions at the conclusion of many of the 31 chapters. The seven sections in this edition of the Handbook include: (1) Multidisciplinary Perspectives (e.g. economics health sciences sociology and human development); (2) Policy and Leadership; (3) Teacher Education and Teaching; (4) Curriculum Language and Literacy; (5) STEM; (6) Parents Families and Communities; and (7) School Closures Gentrification and Youth Voice and Innovations. Chapters are written by leaders in the field of urban education and there are 27 new authors in this edition of the Handbook. The book covers a wide and deep range of the landscape of urban education. It is a powerful and accessible introduction to the field of urban education for researchers theorists policymakers and practitioners as well as a critical call for the future of the field for those more seasoned in the field.|Handbook of Urban Education | Education