Schools for Our Cities: Urban Learning in the 21st Century

Schools serving urban areas are at the forefront of state education and on their success depends a high quality public service accessible to all. Urban schools worldwide have received much attention from national and local policy makers, not all of it helpful. This book looks at how provision can be brought to a high standard. "Schools for Our Cities" plots the social, political and economic changes of the past thirty years which have shaped the context for the current work of urban educato...