CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Single-Sex Schools
An Intervention in Search of a Theory 1
Chapter 2 Assumptions and Strategies
A Model for “Saving” Boys of Color 23
Chapter 3 Curriculum and Instruction
Striving for Rigor and Relevance 55
Chapter 4 Building Community
A Climate That Supports Resilience 95
Chapter 5 Reconstructing Social Identities
Race, Ethnicity, and Gender 137
Chapter 6 Resilience and Achievement
Attitudes and Practices That Influence Performance 165
Chapter 7 Creating Protective School Environments
A Framework for Reform 195
Appendix 1 Descriptions of the Schools 205
Edward Fergus is the deputy director of the
Metropolitan Center for Urban Education at New York University.
Pedro Noguera is the Peter L. Agnew Professor of
Education at New York University.
Margary Martin is a visiting assistant professor
at Brown University.
"Schooling for Resilience"not only lays out the issues,
circumstances, and problems facing Black and Latino males in school
systems, but offers a systematic statement of where and how
intervention for improvement should be situated. . .This is clearly
a work that will encourage collective action to address a standing
crisis. Alford Young, Jr., Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Sociology
and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan
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At a time of crisis among Black and Latino boys the most vulnerable
populations in our public schools "Schooling for Resilience"probes
the souls of schools and provides a brilliant road map to better
education. Gilberto Q. Conchas, associate professor and chancellor
s fellow, School of Education, University of California, Irvine
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