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One civil rights-era law has reshaped American society—and contributed to the country's ongoing culture wars Few laws have had such far-reaching impact as Tit
This book profiles local and national efforts to transform urban education and reinvent urban teacher preparation. It describes real programs in real urban scho
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For more than two generations, the traditional urban school system—the district—has utterly failed to do its job: prepare its students for a lifetime of suc