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Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- William F. Tate IV -- Part I. Conceptualizing Urban Space -- Neighborhood Inequality, Violence, and the Social Infrastructure of the American City -- Robert Sampson -- Toward a Theory of Place: Social Mobility, Proximity and Proximal Capital -- Odis D. Johnson, Jr. -- Urban Opportunity Structure and Racial/Ethnic Polarization -- George C. Galster -- Racial Segregation in Multiethnic Schools: Adding Immigrants to the Analysis -- Ingrid Gould Ellen and Katherine O'Regan with Amy Ellen Schwartz and Leanaa Stiefel -- Part II. The Growing Complexity of Metropolitan America -- Suburbanization and School Segregation -- sean f. reardon, John T. Yun, and Anna K. Chmielewski -- Schools Matter: Segregation, Unequal Educational Opportunities, and the Achievement Gap in the Boston Region -- John R. Logan and Dierdre Oakley -- Still Separate, Still Unequal, but Not Always So Suburban: The Changing Nature of Suburban School Districts in the New York Metropolitan Area. -- Amy Stewart Wells, Douglas Ready, Jacquelyn Duran, Courtney Grzesikowski, Kathryn Hill, Allison Roda, Miya Warner, and Terenda White -- Adding geospatial perspective to research on schools, communities, and neighborhoods -- Mark Hogrebe -- Part III. Teaching and Learning Research in Social Context -- Conceptual and Methodological Challenges to a Cultural and Ecological Framework for Studying Human Learning and Development -- Carol D. Lee -- An Ecological and Activity Theoretic Approach to Studying Diasporic and Non-Dominant Communities -- Kris Gutierrez and Angela E. Arzubiaga -- Reconstructing Education in America -- Henry M. Levin -- Can School Improvement Reduce Racial Inequality -- Stephen Raudenbush -- Seeing our way into learning science in informal environments -- Shirley Brice Heath -- No Color Necessary: High School Students' Discourse on College Support Systems and College Readiness -- Evellyn Elizondo, Walter R.Allen, and Miguel Ceja -- Taking Math and Science to Black Parents: Promises and Challenges of a Community-Based Intervention for Educational Change -- Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Linwood Cousins, Anne Valasco, and Brian Williams -- Research Infrastructure for Improving Urban Education -- Larry V. Hedges and Nathan Jones -- Part IV. Research on Human Development, Health, and Human Service Providers in Social Context -- Maximizing Cultural and Contextually-Sensitive Assessment Strategies in Developmental and Educational Research -- Margaret Beale Spencer, Brian Tinsley, Davido Dupree, and Suzanne Fegley -- Immigrant Children Hiding in Plain Sight in the Margins of the Urban Infrastructure -- Michael A. Olivas -- Delivering High Quality Public Services to Vulnerable Families and Children in America's Cities: The Lessons from Reforming Child Welfare -- Olivia Golden -- Health Disparities among African Americans in Urban Populations -- Sheri Notaro -- Pandemic Preparedness: Using Geospatial Models to Inform Planning in Systems of Education and Health in Metropolitan American -- William F. Tate IV -- A "Tragic Dichotomy": A Case Study of Industrial Lead Contamination and Management in a Company Town -- Jill McNew -- Part V. Case Studies of Metropolitan Communities -- Urban America in Distress: A Case Study Analysis of Gary, Indiana: 1968-1987 -- Gail E. Wolfe -- God's Will or Government Policy: Katrina's Unveiling of History and Mass Dispersion of Black People -- Jerome Morris -- The White House Office on Urban Affairs: Regionalism, Sustainability, and the Neglect of Social Infrastructure -- Ronald Walters -- Epilogue -- Toward Civic Responsibility and Civic Engagement -- William F. Tate, IV. |
