Few problems in education are as pressing as the severe crisis in urban schools. Though educators have tried a wide range of remedies, dismal results persist. T

Urban Schools: Crisis and Revolution describes America's inner-city public schools and the failure of most to provide even a minimally adequate education for th

We are in a race against time to save urban children from educational failure and to reform urban school systems before people give up on them. The authors exam

Americans worry continually about their schools with frequent discussions of the "crisis" in American education, of the "failures" of the public school systems,