Introduction : urban education in political context / Clarence N. Stone
Can we desegregate public schools and subsidized housing? : Lessons from the sorry history of Yonkers, New York / Jennifer Hochschild and Michael N. Danielson
Regionalism forestalled : metropolitan fragmentation and desegregation planning in greater New Haven, Connecticut / Kathryn A. McDermott
Consensus building and school reform : the role of the courts in San Francisco / Luis Ricardo Fraga, Bari Anhalt Erlichson, and Sandy Lee
The challenge of school reform in Baltimore : race, jobs, and politics / Marion Orr
Grassroots action in East Brooklyn : a community organization takes up school reform / Timothy Ross
Strategy and tactics in subsystem protection : the politics of education reform in Montgomery County, Maryland / Cheryl L. Jones and Connie Hill
Corporate influence on Chicago school reform / Dorothy Shipps
School politics in Houston : the impact of business involvement / Thomas Longoria Jr.
Education and regime change in Charlotte / Stephen Samuel Smith
Changing urban education : defining the issues / Kathryn M. Doherty
Civic capacity and urban school reform / Clarence N. Stone
Changing urban education : lessons, cautions, prospects / Michael N. Danielson and Jennifer Hochschild.
