Making a Difference in Urban Schools : : Ideas, Politics, and Pedagogy /

Making a Difference in Urban Schools : : Ideas, Politics, and Pedagogy / / Jane Gaskell, Benjamin Levin.

What can be done to improve the educational experiences of students who live in cities with increasingly high levels of diversity and inequality? Making a Difference in Urban Schools evaluates how school and community leaders have worked to change urban education in Canada for the better over the pa...

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Gaskell, Jane,
Levin, Benjamin,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2012
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Setting the Stage: Poverty, Diversity, and Urban Education
  • 2. Change in the Winnipeg School Division
  • 3. Reform at the Toronto Board of Education
  • 4. Ideas Matter: The Impact of Evidence and Belief
  • 5. Politics, Conflict, and Civic Capacity
  • 6. Teaching and Learning in Urban Schools
  • 7. Lessons from Canadian Urban School Reform
  • Appendix on Methodology
  • References
  • Index of Names and Organizations

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