Table of Contents

Volume 32, Number 3, 2001 Contents:INTRODUCTION:S. Books, V. Polakow, Poverty and Schooling. ARTICLES:K. Burch, A Tale of Two Citizens: Asking the Rodriquez Question in the 21st Century. M. Haberman, The Creation of an Urban Normal School: What Constitutes Quality in Alternative Certification? N.K. Mutua, Policied Identities: Children With Disabilities. L.R. Bloom, I'm Poor, I'm Single, I'm a Mom, and I Deserve Respect:Advocating in Schools as/With Mothers in Poverty. J.H. Romeo, Educating Students About Poverty and Health Needs. B. Duffield, Policies and Practices. BOOK REVIEWS:S. Polakow-Suransky,Teacher With a Heart: Reflections on Leonard Covello and Community, by Vito Perrone.D.E. Purpel,Upon Whom We Depend: The American Poverty System,, by J. Gordon Chamberlin.L. Weiner,Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy, by Kim Moody.S.W. Tutwiler,Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope, by Jonathan Kozol.P. Burdell, B.B. Swadener,On the Outside Looking in: A Year in an Inner-City High School, by Cristina Rathbone.E. Turner, A.C. Barton,Renewing Hope Within Neighborhoods of Despair: The Community-Based Development Model, by Herbert J. Rubin.C. Lashley,Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reform, by Diane Ravitch.E.F. Provenzo, Jr., Time Exposure.

About the Author

Sue Books is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at State University of New York at New Paltz. She is editor of Invisible Children in the Society and Its Schools (1998), a rich collection of essays dealing with all manner of issues and problems facing children and youth in this culture, from homophobia to racism to pregnancy to poverty. Valerie Polakow is a professor and my colleague here in the Department of Teacher Education at Eastern Michigan University. She is author of several books, including The Erosion of Child[1]hood (1982), Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America (1993), and most recently the editor of The Public Assault on America's Children: Poverty, Violence and Juvenile Injustice (2000).