Is extreme poverty growing? Is business-style competition a good model for improving schools? Are downtowns making a sustainable comeback?

These are just some of the provocative questions your students will find in the new edition of Urban Issues. For current coverage of urban politics, your students will appreciate the balanced and unbiased reporting of CQ Researcher. Urban Issues gives them a window into how policy is made and implemented and is sure to spark classroom debate. Each chapter examines the key players, stakes, and lessons for the future, while covering the range of fact, analysis, and opinion surrounding each issue. Advancing critical thinking, each report includes the following useful features:

• a pro/con box that examines two competing sides of a single question;
• a detailed chronology;
• an annotated bibliography and web resources; and
• photos, charts, graphs, and maps.

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• 7 brand new selections, and 4 updated selections.

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EDUCATION
1. School Reform
2. Fixing Urban Schools

LAND USE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
3. Blighted Cities
4. Downtown Renaissance
5. Attracting Jobs
6. Rapid Urbanization
7. Aging Infrastructure
8. High-Speed Trains

LAW ENFORCEMENT
9. Police Misconduct

RACE, CLASS AND ETHNICITY
10. Domestic Poverty
11. Immigration Conflict
12. Child Poverty