This is a special issue of Educational Studies, Volume 32, No 3 from 2001. It's main focus is poverty and schooling with two guest editors that have been deeply involved in research and teaching on the problem of children in poverty for many years and bring their considerable expertise to this excellent collection of scholarship and reviews.

Volume 32, Number 3, 2001Contents:INTRODUCTION: S. Books, V. Polakow, Poverty and Schooling. ARTICLES: K. Burch, A Tale of Two Citizens: Asking the Rodriquez Question in the 21st Century. M. Haberman, The Creation of an Urban Normal School: What Constitutes Quality in Alternative Certification? N.K. Mutua, Policied Identities: Children With Disabilities. L.R. Bloom, "I'm Poor, I'm Single, I'm a Mom, and I Deserve Respect":Advocating in Schools as/With Mothers in Poverty. J.H. Romeo, Educating Students About Poverty and Health Needs. B. Duffield, Policies and Practices. BOOK REVIEWS: S. Polakow-Suransky, Teacher With a Heart: Reflections on Leonard Covello and Community, by Vito Perrone. D.E. Purpel, Upon Whom We Depend: The American Poverty System,, by J. Gordon Chamberlin. L. Weiner, Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy, by Kim Moody. S.W. Tutwiler, Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope, by Jonathan Kozol. P. Burdell, B.B. Swadener, On the Outside Looking in: A Year in an Inner-City High School, by Cristina Rathbone. E. Turner, A.C. Barton, Renewing Hope Within Neighborhoods of Despair: The Community-Based Development Model, by Herbert J. Rubin. C. Lashley, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reform, by Diane Ravitch. E.F. Provenzo, Jr., Time Exposure.