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

by Benjamin Levin, Jane Gaskell, Jane S. Gaskell, et al.

Book Overview

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 past fifty years.

This analytic and comparative study traces the evolution of urban education in Toronto and Winnipeg from the 1960s onward. Jane...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080209581X
• ISBN13: 9780802095817
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher