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Theory, Research & Action in Urban Education
Theory, Research, and Action in Urban Education (TRAUE) is an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal published by doctoral students and recent graduates of The Graduate Center.
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School-wide Systems for Multilingual Learner Success
A Roadmap for Leaders
By Lisa Auslander (Ph.D. '16, Urban Education) and
Joanna Yip (Ph.D. '16, Urban Education)
Innovative and accessible, this book provides a roadmap for designing school environments that address the needs of English learners (ELs). Offering a wealth of resources to support school leaders working with multilingual students, Auslander and Yip explain how a systems thinking approach enables the development of stronger school-wide multi-tiered systems of support and can lead to meaningful, context-specific solutions that set up ELs for success. With vignettes, case studies, and tools for readers in each chapter, the book not only identifies what effective practices look like but also outlines methods to help effectively implement culturally and linguistically responsive teaching.
Published March 2022
Routledge

Children Framing Childhoods
Working-Class Kids’ Visions of Care
Urban educational research, practice, and policy are preoccupied with problems, brokenness, stigma, and blame. As a result, too many people are unable to recognize the capacities and desires of children and youth growing up in working-class communities. This book offers an alternative angle of vision — animated by young people’s own photographs, videos, and perspectives over time. It shows how a racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse community of young people in Worcester, MA used cameras at different ages (10, 12, 16, and 18) to capture and value the centrality of care in their lives, homes, and classrooms.
Published February 2020

Handbook of Children's Rights: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, Michael Freeman, editors
While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past several decades there has been a substantial increase in both social and political commitment to children's rights as well as a tendency to grant young people some of the rights that were typically accorded only to adults. In addition, there has been a noticeable shift in orientation from a focus on children's protection and provision to an emphasis on children's participation and self-determination.
This comprehensive, cosmopolitan, and timely volume serves as an important reference for both scholarly and policy-driven interest in the voices and perspectives of children and youth.
Published October 2017
Routledge, 2017