The second edition of 19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City adds new questions to those in
the original volume. Continuing the developing conversation in urban education the book is
provocative in style and rich in detail. Emphasizing the complexity of urban education Shirley
R. Steinberg and the authors ask direct questions about what urban teachers need to know. Their
answers are guaranteed to generate both classroom discussion and discourse in the field for
years to come. The book not only addresses questions pertaining directly to today's urban
schools but poses new ones for discussion teacher education and urban school research.
Steinberg has gathered an impressive cadre of teacher scholars who are engaged in a socially
just urban pedagogy.
