Setting the stage : poverty, diversity, and urban education -- Change in the Winnipeg School Division -- Reform at the Toronto Board of Education -- Ideas matter : the impact of evidence and belief -- Politics, conflict, and civic capacity -- Teaching and learning in urban schools -- Lessons from Canadian urban school reform -- Appendix on methodology
Summary
Making a Difference in Urban Schools evaluates how school and community leaders have worked to change urban education in Canada for the better over the past fifty years