Good Schools in Poor Neighborhoods / Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: Overview and Study Methods

1. Defeated by Demographics: Are Poor, Urban Schools Doomed to Failure?
2. Highly Effective versus Typical Schools: How the Exception Contradicts the Rule

PART II: What the Study Found

3. Cumberland City: Coping with Population Change
4. What Makes Some Cumberland City Schools Highly Effective?
5. Rios Calientes: Responding to NAFTA
6. What Makes Some Rios Calientes Schools Highly Effective?

PART III: What the Study Concluded

7. Lessons Learned and What They May Mean for Educational Reform

Appendix A: Sample Cumberland City Case Studies

• John Adams Elementary: A Highly Effective School
• Martin Van Buren Elementary: A Typical School

Appendix B: Sample Rios Calientes Case Studies

• Diego Rivera Elementary: A Highly Effective School
• Rufino Tamayo Elementary: A Typical School

Notes

References

About the Authors

Index

Good Schools in Poor Neighborhoods: Defying Demographics, Achieving Success, by Beatriz Chu Clewell and Patricia B. Campbell, with Lesley Perlman, is available from the Urban Institute Press (paper, 6" x 9", 280 pages, ISBN 978-0-87766-742-1, $29.50).