Teachers, community activists, and parents acknowledge and applaud democratic educational systems that establish partnerships between universities and the urban communities they serve.

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic text. Focuses on the roles of hope, participation, and change in reforming American schools.

An award-winning teacher takes a journey into alien territory: Austria, Hitler's birthplace, and the territory of her own hatred. A teaching memoir that offers a pedagogy of hope.

Summarizes findings of a long-term study of math and science education reforms in Chicago, El Paso, Memphis, and Miami.

A resource to help institutions navigate the choppy waters of reform.

Explores the theory, practice, and poetics of spiritual and holistic education.

Including interviews with several of America's leading environmental writers, this volume addresses the intersections between writing and nature.

Assesses the influence of family and school on African American students' college decision-making processes.

Argues for a more valid and democratic approach to assessment and accountability.

Explores the interdisciplinary dimensions of black studies.

Analyzes and defines the parameters of effective college outreach programs.

Using a life history approach, looks at what influences citizens to participate in the voluntary associations that comprise and promote civil society.

Analyzes how teachers attempt to translate the language of reform into pedagogical action.

Offers a broad, multidisciplinary, and progressive look at school choice.

Examines the overlapping aims, values, and concepts in peace and environmental education.

Documents the economic, educational, and existential struggles that single mothers in poverty confront in the current welfare climate.

Argues that the technical model of practice has limited applicability for the practices of care (teaching, nursing, social work, and psychotherapy).

Portrays the diverse experiences and identities of mixed race college students.

Research on the impact of social class variables on experiences of adolescents as they transition to middle school.

Offers a thorough look at peer review in virtual environments.

Blends memoir and scholarship to provide a moving and sometimes unsettling look at how academic discourse affects the cultural values and identities that students bring into the writing classroom.

Argues for a pragmatic canon always in need of renovation.

Problematizes traditional ethnographic research methods, offering instead self-reflexive critical practices.

An inspiring story of the student-centered learning that can take place in a democratic, caring school.

Explores cooperative learning practices.