Educational Resilience in Inner-City America

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Preface	p. ix
Understanding Resilience	p. 1
Resilience in Individual Development: Successful Adaptation Despite Risk and Adversity	p. 3
References	p. 22
Variations in the Experience of Resilience	p. 27
References	p. 42
Educational Resilience in Inner Cities	p. 45
References	p. 67
Understanding Resilient Students: the Use of National Longitudinal Databases	p. 73
References	p. 84
the Americanization of Resilience: Deconstructing Research Practice	p. 85
References	p. 93
Research on Resilience: Conceptual and Methodological Considerations	p. 95
on Resilience: Questions of Validity	p. 97
References	p. 107
Resilience as a Dispositional Quality: Some Methodological Points	p. 109
References	p. 116
Risk and Resilience: Contextual Influences on the Development of African-American Adolescents	p. 119
References	p. 128
Special Education as a Resilience-Related Venture	p. 131
References	p. 137
Fostering Educational Resilience	p. 139
Effectiveness and Efficiency in Inner-City Public Schools: Charting School Resilience	p. 141
References	p. 149
Understanding Resilience: Implications for Inner-City Schools and Their Near and Far Communities	p. 151
References	p. 164
Contextualizing Resiliency	p. 167
References	p. 175
Organizing for Responsiveness: the Heterogeneous School Community	p. 179
References	p. 188
Epilogue: Educational Resilience-- Challenges and Prospects	p. 191
References	p. 194
Author Index	p. 195
Subject Index	p. 203
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