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 City Schools: Lessons from New York
Edited by Diane Ravitch and Joseph Viteritti
Johns Hopkins, June 2000
Book Description:
City Schools brings together a distinguished group of researchers, and educators
for an in-depth look at the nation's largest school system. Topics covered include
the changing demographics of city schools, the impending teacher shortage, reading
instruction, special education, bilingual education, school governance, charter
schools, choice, school finance reform, and collective bargaining. The book also
provides fresh and fascinating perspectives on Catholic schools, Jewish day schools,
and historically black independent schools. The authors explore pedagogical, institutional,
and policy issues in an urban school system whose challenges are those of American
urban education writ large.
Reviews:
"This major contribution to the current literature serves two important objectives.
First, it treats the educational problems of New York City as structural challenges
common to all urban districts. Second, it introduces practices and issues that
have long been overlooked in the debate on school reform. This volume will attract
widespread attention in both the academic and the policy communities." --Kenneth Wong, University of Chicago
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