urban schools that have developed policy initiatives that promote educational equity. Community-based curricula, and teacher education and parent empowerment programs that emphaize domocratic collaboration among universities, urban teachers, parents and community memebrs. By involving all stakeholdes, this comprehesive approach provides a model for creating urban schools that not only excite and inpire, but also serve an engines for social change. Contending that urban education reform will fail without public engagement and a commitment to social justice, the contributors challenge urban educators to become accountable to their students.

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