This comprehensive volume addresses this definitional challenge and provides a 3-part conceptual model in which the achievement of equity for all -- regardless of race, gender, or ethnicity – is an ideal that is central to urban education. The model also posits that effective urban education requires attention to the three central issues that confronts all education systems (a) accountability of individuals and the institutions in which they work, (b) leadership, which occurs in multiple ways and at multiple levels, and (c) learning, which is the raison d'être of education. Just as a three-legged stool would fall if any one leg were weak or missing, each of these areas is essential to effective urban education and affects the others.
Karen Symms Gallagher is Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean at the Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California.
Rodney Goodyear is Emeritus Professor of Education (Counseling Psychology) at the University of Southern California, and Professor of Education at the University of Redlands.
Dominic J. Brewer is Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Affairs, and Clifford H. and Betty C. Allen Professor in Urban Leadership at the Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California.
Robert Rueda is Stephen Crocker Professor in Education and Professor of Educational Psychology at the Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California.