Journal Issues

Issue 1 – Spring 2025 – The Urban Experience in Literacy

Table of Contents

Co-Editor Introduction by Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers and Dr. Alicia Leggett

Letter to the Editor – Crisis as Distraction and Erasure: How SOR Fails Diversity and Urban Students by Dr. Paul Thomas, Furman University

Research Article – Community-based Literacy Units for Urban Schools: Supporting Preservice Teachers to Design Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Curriculum by Kathryn Ahmed, Hunter College

Best Practice Article – Empowering Newcomer Students with Inconsistent/Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE) in Secondary Schools: Urgent Call for Comprehensive Literacy Support by Dr. Rabia Hos, Southern Connecticut State University Dr. Gulhan Sari, University of North Texas

Interview – The Black Gaze Podcast Interview by Faith Sears, Salisbury State University

Academic Book Review – Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom by Darlshawn Patterson, University of South Florida

Issue 2 – Summer 2025 – Children’s and Young Adult Literature in Urban Schools

Table of Contents

Co-Editor Introduction by Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers and Dr. Alicia Leggett

Research Article – Selecting and Using Culturally Relevant Books to Counter Educational Inequality for BIPOC Students by Andrea Jamison and Emma McNamara

Research Article – No More Dying of Thirst on Stage: Writing for Joy in the Youth Poetry Slam by Brian Mooney, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Best Practice Article – Empowering Urban Educators by Daris McInnis, West Chester University

Interview – Debbie Reese by Carrie Anne Thomas, The Ohio State University

Children’s Book Review – I’m From by LaToya Tingle, The Ohio State University