May 17-18, 2001
Studying the Urban High School
Harvard Club of New York City
New York, New York
Reference List of Works Suggested by Conference Participants
Angus, D.L. and J.E. Mirel. The Failed Promise of the American High School 1890-1995. New York: Teachers College Press, 1999.
Anyon. Jean. Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform. New York : Teachers College Press, 1997.
__________. Social Policy and Urban Education. In Progress.
__________. Ghetto Schooling: The Political Economy of Urban Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 1994. (Although Anyon's book uses an elementary school as its case, the extraordinary analysis is equally useful for understanding urban high schools.)
Boo, Katherine. After Welfare. The New Yorker, April 9, 2001.
Childress, H. Landscapes of Betrayal, Landscapes of Joy: Curtisville in the Lives of Its Teenagers. Albany: SUNY Press, 2000.
CPRE-Selected papers from the current study of high schools and accountability reforms (Elmore, Siskin, Carnoy and others), including papers from the recent AERA symposium High Stakes for High Schools.
Elmore, Richard F. Building a New Structure for School Leadership. The Albert Shanker Institute, Winter 2000
Ferguson, Ronald F. "Can Schools Narrow the Black-White Score Gap," in The Black-White Score Gap, in The Black-White Score Gap, C. Jencks and M. Phillips, eds. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998.
Fine, Michelle and Lois Weis. The Unknown City: Lives of Poor and Working-Class Young Adults. Boston : Beacon Press, 1999.
Fullan, Michael. Change Forces: The Sequel. Taylor & Francis, Inc., 1998.
Grissmer, David,W., Ann Flanagan, Jennifer Kawata, and Stephanie Williamson. Improving Student Achievement: What Do State NAEP Scores Tell Us. RAND, 2000.
Henig, J. R., R.C. Hula, M. Orr, and D.S.Pedescleaux. The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics and the Challenge of Urban Education. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1999.
Huang, Gary G. and Stanley S.Weng. Minority Post-Secondary Education Attendance, High School Desegregation, and Student Characteristics. Race Ethnicity, and Education. Vol. 1, No. 2 October 241-265, 1998.
Jencks, Christopher and Meredith Phillips. The Black-White Test Score Gap. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998.
Jordan, W.J., J.M. McPartland, N.E.Legters, and R. Balfanz. Creating a Comprehensive School Reform Model: The Talent Development High School with Career Academies. Journal for Education of Students Placed At Risk. 5, 1&2, 159-181, 2000.
Krueger, Alan B., and Diane M. Whitmore. The Effect of Attending a Small Class in the Early Grades on College-Test Taking and Middle School Test Results: Evidence From Project STAR. Economic Journal 111: 1-28, 2001.
Lee, Valerie. Restructuring High Schools For Equity and Excellence: What Works. New York : Teachers College Press, 2001.
__________. School Size and the Organization of Secondary Schools. In M.T. Hallinan (Ed.) Handbook of the Sociology of Education, (pp. 327-344). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999.
Lee, Valerie and Julia Smith. Effects of High School Restructuring and Size on Gains in Achievement and Engagement for Early Secondary School Students. American Educational Research Journal, Spring 2000. (Also available from the Wisconsin Center for Educational Research)
__________. High School Size: Which Works Best and For Whom? Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 19(3), 205-227, 1997.
Lucas, Samuel Roundfield. Tracking Inequality: Stratification and Mobility in American High Schools. New York: Teachers College Press, 1999.
Marks, H.M. Student Engagement in Instructional Activity: Patterns in the Elementary, Middle, and High School Years. American Educational Research Journal. 37, 1(spring) 153-184, 2000.
McAdams, Donald R. Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools - and Winning! Lessons From Houston. New York: Teachers College, 2000.
McLaughlin, Milbrey W. and Joan E. Talbert. Professional Communities and the Work of High School Teaching. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
McNeil, Linda. Contradictions of Reform. New York: Routledge, 1999.
McPartland, J. and W. Jordan. Essential Components of High School Dropout Prevention Reforms. Harvard Conference on Dropouts, 2001. www.law.harvard.edu/civilrights/publications/dropout/mcpartland.html.
McQuillan, Patrick J. Educational Opportunity in an Urban American High School: A Cultural Analysis. Albany: State University of New York, 1998.
Mehan, Hugh, I. Villanueva, L. Hubbard, and A. Lintz. Constructing School Success: The Consequences of Untracking Low-achieving Students. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Nield, Ruth Curran and Christopher C. Weiss. The Philadelphia Longitudinal Study (PELS): Report on the Transition to High School in the School District of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA: The Philadelphia Education Fund, 1999.
O'Connor, Carla. Dispositions Toward (Collective) Struggle and Educational Resilience in the Inner City: A Case Analysis of Six African-American High School Students. d. Vol. 34, No. 4 Winter, pp. 593-629, 1997.
Oakes, Jeannie, Karen Hunter Quartz, Steve Ryan, and Martin Lipton. Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999.
Olsen, L. Made In America: Immigrant Students In Our Public Schools. New York: The New Press, 1997.
Porter, A. C. The Effects of Upgrading Policies on High School Mathematics and Science. In D. Ravitch (Ed.), Brookings papers on education policy (pp. 123-164). Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998.
Portes, Alejandro and Rubin Rumbaut. Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.
Powell, Furar, and Cohen. The Shopping Mall High School. New York: Houghton Mifflin, pp. 1-7, 309-321, 1985.
Shirley, Dennis. Community Organizing for Urban School Reform. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1997
__________. Organizing the Valley: Community Empowerment and School Reform in South Texas . Austin : University of Texas Press , (in press).
Stanton-Salazar, Ricardo D. Manufacturing Hope & Despair: The School and Kin Support Networks of US-Mexican Youth. New York: Teachers College Press. (in press).
Steinberg,, Lawrence. Beyond the Classroom: Why School Reform has Failed and What Parents Need to Do. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Stone, C. Changing Urban Education (an edited book). Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas , 1998.
Suarez-Orozco, Carola and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco. Children of Immigration. Boston : Harvard University Press, 2001.
Valenzuela, Angela. Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring. New York: State University of New York Press, 1999.
Ward, Janie V. The Skin We're In: Teaching Our Children To Be Emotionally Strong, Social Smart, Spiritually Connected, New York: The Free Press, 2000.
Wells, Amy Stuart and Irene Serna. The Politics of Culture: Understanding of Local Political Resistance inDetracking Racially Mixed Schools. Harvard Education Review 66 (1), 93-118, 1996.
Wilson, Bruce and H. Dickson Corbett. Listening to Urban Kids: School Reform and the Teachers They Want. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2001.