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Reforming Mathematics Education in America's Cities:
The Urban Mathematics Collaborative Project
Norman L. Webb and Thomas A. Romberg, Editors
Ways of Knowing in Science and Mathematics Series
Pub Date: 1994, 256 pages
Paperback: $21.95, ISBN: 0807733822
 
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The editors document and analyze a five-year effort to effect reform through empowering mathematics teachers in urban schools. Their focus is the UMC Project, targeting over 3000 high school mathematics teachers in collaboratives in 11 urban areas. Contributors reveal the strategies developed, difficulties encountered, and successes achieved by the collaboratives, and critically reflect on the concept of collaboration as a process for reform, the internal forces in educational and societal institutions that resist systemic change, and the use of the school as a site of reform.
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