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 .7. Making a way out of no way : black male students at City High School / Garrett Albert Duncan & Ryonnel Jackson
ch. 8. Between a danger zone and a safe space : LGBTQ youth and the challenge of democratic education / Dennis Carlson
ch. 9. What about adolescent curiosity and risk taking? / Thomas G. Reio, Jr.
ch. 10. Understanding adolescent suicide : a psychological interpretation of developmental and contextual factors / Pedro R. Portes, Daya S. Sandhu, & Robert Longwell-Grice
Part II. Social and cultural perspectives
ch. 11. Framing adolescents, their schools and culture : contested worldviews / Linda Irwin-Devitis
ch. 12. Stigma stories in the media : four discourses about teen mothers, welfare, and poverty / Deirdre M. Kelly
ch. 13. What does it mean to be in a gang? / Haroon Kharem
ch. 14. Would you like values with that? Chick-fil-A and character education / Deron Boyles
ch. 15. Implied adolescents and implied teachers : a generation gap for new times / Cynthia Lewis & Margaret Finders
ch. 16. Adolescent engagement, connectedness and dropping out of school / John Smyth
ch. 17. Overcoming negative school experiences of African-American adolescents : what school counselors can do to eradicate ethnocentrism / Dana Griffin & Julia Bryan
ch. 18. Why an undemocratic capitalism has brought public education to its knees / Richard A. Gibboney.
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.
