Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Conceptualizing Urban Space -- Chapter 1: Neighborhood Inequality, Violence, and the Social Infrastructure of the American City -- Chapter 2: Toward a Theory of Place -- Chapter 3: Urban Opportunity Structure and Racial/Ethnic Polarization -- Chapter 4: Racial Segregation in Multiethnic Schools -- Part II: The Growing Complexity of Metropolitan America -- Chapter 5: Suburbanization and School Segregation -- Chapter 6: Schools Matter -- Chapter 7: Still Separate, Still Unequal, But Not Always So "Suburban" -- Chapter 8: Adding Geospatial Perspective to Research on Schools, Communities, and Neighborhoods -- Part III: Teaching and Learning Research in Social Context -- Chapter 9: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges to a Cultural and Ecological Framework for Studying Human Learning and Development -- Chapter 10: An Ecological and Activity Theoretic Approach to Studying Diasporic and Nondominant Communities -- Chapter 11: Reconstructing Education in America -- Chapter 12: Can School Improvement Reduce Racial Inequality? -- Chapter 13: Seeing Our Way Into Learning Science in Informal Environments -- Chapter 14: No Color Necessary -- Chapter 15: Taking Math and Science to Black Parents -- Part IV: Research on Human Development, Health, and Human Service Providers in Social Context -- Chapter 16: Maximizing Culturally and Contextually Sensitive Assessment Strategies in Developmental and Educational Research -- Chapter 17: Immigrant Children -- Chapter 18: Delivering High-Quality Public Services to Vulnerable Families and Children in America's Cities -- Chapter 19: Health Disparities Among African Americans in Urban Populations -- Chapter 20: A "Tragic Dichotomy" -- Chapter 21: Pandemic Preparedness -- Part V: Case Studies of Metropolitan Communities -- Chapter 22: Urban America in Distress.

Chapter 23: God's Will or Government Policy? -- Epilogue -- Chapter 24: Research Infrastructure for Improving Urban Education -- Chapter 25: The White House Office of Urban Affairs -- Chapter 26: Toward Civic Responsibility and Civic Engagement -- About the Contributors.