Part I. Developmental perspectives -- ch. 1. Theoretical overview : adolescent culture and the culture of refusal / Brett Elizabeth Blake -- ch. 2. Who is included in the urban family? / Katia Goldfarb -- ch. 3. "Who you think I am is not necessarily who I think I am" : the multiple positionalities of urban student identities / Rebecca A. Goldstein -- ch. 4. Tween social and biological reproduction : early puberty in girls / Elizabeth Seaton -- ch. 5. The body of evidence : dangerous intersections between development and culture in the lives of adolescent girls / Mary K. Bentley -- ch. 6. Urban African American female students and educational resiliency / Venus Evans-Winters -- ch

Part III. Pedagogical perspectives -- ch. 19. Deferred but determined : a middle school manifesto / John H. Lounsbury -- ch. 20. "The ideal high school for future adolescents : a neo-Deweyan perspective" / Douglas J. Simpson & Margaret Price -- ch. 21. Beyond "written off": surviving and thriving through adolescent literacy / Dan Bauer, Linda Golson Bradley, & Lindell Dillon -- ch. 22. Urban youth engaging poetry and creating learning communities / Korina M. Jocson -- ch. 23. Teaching history to adolescents / John A. Beineke -- ch. 24. Critical civic literacy in schools : adolescents seeking to understand and improve the(ir) world / Kenneth Teitelbaum -- ch. 25. Teaching students how to think critically : the Confederate flag controversy in the high school social studies curriculum / Susan L. Schramm-Pate & Richard Lussier -- ch. 26. Urban success : a multidimensional mathematics approach with equitable outcomes / Jo Boaler -- ch. 27. Making high school science instruction effective / Thomas R. Koballa, Jr. & Abdulkadir Demir -- ch. 28. Teaching about global warming in truck country / Jana Dean -- ch. 29. "If you're good at nothin', what are ya good for?" Disability and identity / Melissa M. Jones -- ch. 30. How important is technology in urban education? / Vanessa Domine -- ch. 31. The new vocationalism : what it is, what it could be / W. Norton Grubb -- ch. 32. Character education for adolescents : pedagogy of control / Tianlong Yu -- ch. 33. An empowering, transformative approach to service / Jeff Claus & Curtis Ogden -- ch. 34. The early college concept: building hope for students, parents, professionals, and community / Camille Daniel-Tyson & Lianna Nix -- ch. 35. How can caring help? A personalized cross-generational examination of violent adolescent experiences in schools / Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon -- ch. 36. "I'm a person; I'm not dirt!" : the impact of power relationships on perceptions of caring in a secondary classroom / Marcia Peck -- ch. 37. Talks with teenagers and teachers / Nel Noddings.