 Prioritizing Urban Children, Teachers, and Schools Through Professional Development Schoolsreviewed by Barbara Beyerbach - July 16, 2009  Title: Prioritizing Urban Children, Teachers, and Schools Through Professional Development SchoolsAuthor(s): Pia Lindquist Wong and Ronald David Glass (eds.) Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany ISBN: 1438425937, Pages: 288, Year: 2009 Search for book at Amazon.com Prioritizing Urban Children, Teachers, and Schools Through Professional Development Schools, edited by Wong and Glass, makes an important contribution to the literature on how to build partnerships in urban (and other) settings that disrupt, challenge, and transform oppressive social structures. The focus is squarely on improving education and life chances for low-income, racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse students through engaging preservice and practicing teachers and their communities in culturally relevant educational partnerships. The editors weave many voices throughout the book, primarily those of university based educators and some K-12 teachers, reporting on the evolution of the Equity Network of about a dozen professional development schools (PDS) in the greater Sacramento metropolitan area in partnership with a group of faculty at California State University Sacramento’s College of Education. The book is divided into three sections. The authors of the first section ground their work in a broad political context focused on making... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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