Contents: Christopher Knaus: Developing Urban Youth Voice: A Framework for Culturally Responsive Classrooms ? Greg S. Goodman: Students’ Stories: Bear & Antoine ? Christopher Knaus: You Are the Ones Who Need to Hear Us: The Role of Urban Youth Voice in a Democracy ? Alfred W. DeFreece, Jr.: Where Do We Go from . . . Where? Identifying the Ideological Bases of Low-Income, Urban Black Adolescents’ Views on Racism ? Chance W. Lewis/Terah Venzant Chambers/Bettie Ray Butler: Urban Education in the 21st Century: An Overview of Selected Issues That Impact African American Student Outcomes ? Floyd D. Beachum/Carlos R. McCray: Through the Fire: How Pretext Impacts the Context of African American Educational Experiences ? Floyd D. Beachum/Carlos R. McCray: Dealing with Cultural Collision: What Pre-Service Educators Should Know ? Luis F. Miron: How Do We Locate Resistance in Urban Schools? ? Greg S. Goodman/Adriel A. Hilton: Urban Dropouts: Why Persist? ? Susan Fuhrman: Urban Education Challenges: Is Reform the Answer? ? Rochelle Brock: What Does ≪Good≫ Urban Teaching Look Like? ? Christine Sleeter: The Quest for Social Justice in the Education of Minoritized Students ? Ebony Elizabeth Thomas: The Next Chapter of Our Story: Rethinking African American Metanarratives in Schooling and Society ? Julia Ellis/Susan Fitzsimmons/Jan Small-McGinley: Encouraging the Discouraged: Students’ Views for Elementary Classrooms ? Jane Bean-Folkes: Schools of Hope: Teaching Literacy in the Obama Era ? Rochelle Brock: A Pedagogy of Wholeness ? Larry F. Forthun/Jeffrey W. McCombie/Caroline Payne: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Life Space Crisis intervention (LSCI) ? Shanesha R. F. Brooks-Tatum: Transformative Educational Spaces: Black Youth and Education in the Twenty-First Century ? Mary Hollowell/Donna Moye: Therapeutic Art, Poetry, and Personal Essay: Old and New Prescriptions.