Contents: Brett Elizabeth Blake: Theoretical Overview: Adolescent Culture and the Culture of Refusal - Katia Goldfarb: Who Is Included in the Urban Family? - Rebecca A. Goldstein: Who You Think I Am Is Not Necessarily Who I Think I Am: The Multiple Positionalities of Urban Student Identities - Elizabeth Seaton: Tween Social and Biological Reproduction: Early Puberty in Girls - Mary K. Bentley: The Body of Evidence: Dangerous Intersections between Development and Culture in the Lives of Adolescent Girls - Venus Evans-Winters: Urban African American Female Students and Educational Resiliency - Garrett Albert Duncan/Ryonnel Jackson: Making a Way Out of No Way: Black Male Students at City High School - Dennis Carlson: Between a Danger Zone and a Safe Space: LGBTQ Youth and the Challenge of Democratic Education - Thomas G. Reio, Jr.: What About Adolescent Curiosity and Risk Taking? - Pedro R. Portes/Daya S. Sandhu/Robert Longwell-Grice: Understanding Adolescent Suicide: A Psychological Interpretation of Developmental and Contextual Factors - Linda Irwin-DeVitis: Framing Adolescents, Their Schools and Culture: Contested Worldviews - Deirdre M. Kelly: Stigma Stories in the Media: Four Discourses about Teen Mothers, Welfare, and Poverty - Haroon Kharem: What Does It Mean to Be in a Gang? - Deron Boyles: Would You Like Values with That? Chick-fil-A and Character Education - Cynthia Lewis/Margaret Finders: Implied Adolescents and Implied Teachers: A Generation Gap for New Times - John Smyth: Adolescent Engagement, Connectedness and Dropping Out of School - Dana Griffin/Julia Bryan: Overcoming Negative School Experiences of African-American Adolescents: What School Counselors Can Do to Eradicate Ethnocentrism - Richard A. Gibboney: Why An Undemocratic Capitalism Has Brought Public Education to Its Knees - John H. Lounsbury: Deferred but Determined: A Middle School Manifesto - Douglas J. Simpson/Margaret Price: The Ideal High School for Future Adolescents: A Neo-Deweyan Perspective - Dan Bauer/Linda Golson Bradley/Lindell Dillon: Beyond Written Off: Surviving and Thriving Through Adolescent Literacy - Korina M. Jocson: Urban Youth Engaging Poetry and Creating Learning Communities - John A. Beineke: Teaching History to Adolescents - Kenneth Teitelbaum: Critical Civic Literacy in Schools: Adolescents Seeking to Understand and Improve The(ir) World - Susan L. Schramm-Pate/Richard Lussier: Teaching Students How to Think Critically: The Confederate Flag Controversy in the High School Social Studies Curriculum - Jo Boaler: Urban Success: A Multidimensional Mathematics Approach with Equitable Outcomes - Thomas R. Koballa, Jr./Abdulkadir Demir: Making High School Science Instruction Effective - Jana Dean: Teaching About Global Warming in Truck Country - Melissa M. Jones: If You're Good at Nothin', What Are Ya Good For? Disability and Identity - Vanessa Domine: How Important Is Technology in Urban Education? - W. Norton Grubb: The New Vocationalism: What It Is, What It Could Be - Tianlong Yu: Character Education for Adolescents: Pedagogy of Control - Jeff Claus/Curtis Ogden: An Empowering, Transformative Approach to Service - Camille Daniel-Tyson/Lianna Nix: The Early College Concept: Building Hope for Students, Parents, Professionals and Community - Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon: How Can Caring Help? A Personalized Cross-Generational Examination of Violent Adolescent Experiences in Schools - Marcia Peck: I'm a Person; I'm Not Dirt!: The Impact of Power Relationships on Perceptions of Caring in a Secondary Classroom - Nel Noddings: Talks with Teenagers and Teachers.