This article maps the ghostly outlines of urban postcolonial subjectivities by hinging together several moving parts/frontiers: connotations of postcolonial; applications and implications of ghettoed places and lives; a telling of the closure of a vibrant, innovative urban community high school; and literary depictions of the subtleties and…

This case is based on real-life experiences of community school members within Horner School--an inner-city public school. Specifically, the case explores challenges faced by Cathleen, a 1st-year, White, female principal, who was hired by central office to "revamp a charter school" to promote a quality education for all children. The case raises…

Review of Death at an Early Age" by Jonathan Kozol for the purpose of illustration. (DB)

Describes three tutoring centers--two in churches, one in an office building--where adults from the community provide voluntary after-school help to children from Chicago's disadvantaged Cabrini Green housing project. (SJL)

Argues that it is imperative to develop very early in an inner city child's education those physical skills that have a high potential for carry-on and carry-over value that these students can utilize during their leisure time; that if these skills are neglected to be taught, there is every possibility that the child will never be exposed to them…

This proposal for urban community education centers defends the critical need for supplementary educational programs in academic, vocational, cultural, recreational, health, and other related services for urban ghetto residents beyond school age. The centers would be human resource programs, organized within a local area and using school…

It is the responsibility of the educator to help change the harmful psychological, sociological, and physical environments in which inner-city students function. This responsibility extends beyond the school grounds and into the students' home and social lives. (CK)

Demonstrates that schools and other social institutions existing in inner city neighborhoods encounter a level of difficulty which even at its lowest point is sufficient to prevent them from operating successfully. (JM)

Both participant and non-participant observation were used to analyze longitudinally a single group of black ghetto children in their school, homes, and with their friends. A basic goal of the study is said to consist in accounting for the educational experience of children over time. Two beginning chapters describe public schools and American…

Discusses how many urban students are written off as unworthy of scant educational resources, using Weber and Marx to discuss how educational triage is best understood theoretically, exploring how broader processes of social distribution and triage link up with daily practices and policies in urban classrooms, and highlighting the need for a…

In New York City ghetto schools eighty-five percent of the students are reading below grade level. This points to failure, not of the students but of the school system. In District One, although seventy-three percent of the children are Puerto Rican and eight percent are Chinese, only six of the district's nearly 900 teachers are bilingual. If…