“Global Capitalism and Urban Education� by David Baronov
“Tangling the Knot While Loosening the Strings� by Anthony L. Brown and Keffrelyn D. Brown
“Education in a Globalized Society� by Joseph Carroll-Miranda
“Writing Up Qualitative Research� by Ronald J. Chenail
“Participatory Democratic Education� by Luis Armando Gandin and Gustavo E. Fischman
“Grab� and Good Science: Writing Up the Results of Qualitative Research� by Jane F. Gilgun
Excerpts from The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere by Jurgen Habermas
“Bring in da Noise, Bring in Du Bois� by kecia hayes
“Rewriting the Curriculum for Urban Teacher Preparation� by Cynthia Onore
“Hollywood's Depiction of Urban Schools: Documentary or Fiction?� by Amanda M. Rudolph
“Rethinking Learning and Motivation in Urban Schools� by Robert Rueda and Myron H. Dembo
“Writing A Good Read: Strategies for Re-Presenting Qualitative Data� by Margarete Sandelowski
Excerpt from The Bias of Communication by Innis Harold
“Technology and Ideology- The Case of the Telegraph� by Carey James
“The Internet Under Siege� by Lawrence Lessig
“Politics After the Internet� by Yuval Levin
“Political Blogs: Craze or convention?� by Glidden, et al.
Excerpts from Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
“What’s new about new media?� by Roger Silverstone
Excerpt from Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America by Lynn Spigel
“Video Games and Computer Holding Power� by Sherry Turkle
“Pushing at the Boundaries of New Media Studies� by Nina Wakeford
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