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Collaboratively compiled, organized and co-edited by Shirley R. Steinberg (Associate Professor and Head of Graduate Literacy, Brooklyn College) and Joe L. Kincheloe (Professor of Education, CUNY Graduate Center Urban Education Program, Brooklyn College), 19 Urban Questions: Teaching In The City provides an detailed and accessible overview of urban education emphasizing its complexity in terms of what classroom educators will need to know in order to function best within urban private or public school settings. Through twenty informed and informative essays from experienced academics and researchers, 19 Urban Questions covers the differences in urban education, motives for teaching in city settings, understanding and dealing with dropouts, the role of counseling in urban schools, identifying resistance in urban settings, gangs and gang membership, evaluation and assessment, unique issues relating to disabilities, bilingual education, unique issues in urban literacy, urban students and the writing process, technology in urban classrooms, the value of teaching science in urban settings, the role of aesthetics in city schools, health risks among city students, and understanding the urban family. A collective work of impeccable scholarship, 19 Urban Questions should be considered critically essential reading.