Urban Education

The ethnographer's findings are shaped, for good and for bad, by her roles as a researcher and as a person.

The direct instruction pattern is an effective teaching style for a particular population of children, although more testing is yet needed.

Aspiration and self-concept are consistently linked; other links are erratic or change over time.

Segregated schools are a social injustice and a waste of human resources.

Back-stage communications networks of big-city principals.

Mandatory desegregation is more effective, does not result in more white flight.