NCREST The Series on Cultural Interchange Preface to the Series Titles in the Series About the Authors Acknowledgments Building School-Family Partnerships in a South Bronx Classroom David Bensman Between Home and School: Cultural Interchange in an Elementary Classroom Kathe Jervis YOU ARE HERE Cultural Interchange in a Bronx High School: Three Children Kemly A. McGregor Contents Acknowledgments Introduction “It’s the Company Why Crab Don’t Have No Head” — Leo “If I Don’t Have God, I Don’t Have Nothing in My Life” — Gisela “I Wanna Have It All” — Benjamin Leo, Gisela, Benjamin, and Their School Bibliography   View in PDF format Reaching Out to Other People’s Children in an Urban Middle School: The Families’ Views Jianzhong Xu Grappling with Difference 14-minute video

Cultural Interchange in a Bronx High School: Three Children Kemly A. McGregor Bibliography Fine, M. (1991) Framing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urban Public High School. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. Fordham, S. (1996) Blacked Out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity and Success at Capital High. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Kohl, HR. (1994) I Won’t Learn From You: and Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment. New York: New Press. Palmer, PJ. (1998) “Evoking the spirit in public education.” Educational Leadership (56), 4 Dec. 1998/Jan. 1999, 6–11. Sarason, SB. (1982) The Culture of the School and the Problem of Change (2nd ed). Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. Sedlak, M., Wheeler, CW., Pullin, DC., and Cusick, PA. (1986) Selling Students Short: Classroom Bargains and Academic Reform in the American High School. New York: Teachers College Press. Return to Top of Page