This ground-breaking publication provides thought-provoking commentary on key issues from gender-balanced and racially diverse perspectives.Get hard-hitting, focused analyses of critical concerns facing inner-city schools in Urban Education (UEX). Articles cover topics such as mental health needs of urban students, student motivation and teacher practice, school-to-work programs and community economic development, restructuring in large urban schools and health and social services.
Neighborhoods are being segregated
by social class and the impoverished population is not getting the same
ducational opportunities as the suburban population.Urban schools are at an extreme disadvantage, especially to the children that are attending these schools. Inequalities in education exist from the textbooks provided to the teacher qualifications which in turn affects the quality of education that inner-city children are receiving.