Urban Education
Urban Education
Urban Education (UE) publishes papers addressing urban issues related to those from birth through graduate school, from both a U.S. and an international perspective. For nearly 60 years, this ground-breaking publication has provided thought-provoking commentary on key issues from gender-balanced and racially diverse perspectives. The journal is organized around eight main interdisciplinary areas:
- Curriculum and Instruction
- Counseling and Social Services
- Education Policy
- Equity in Urban Education
- Leadership
- Psychology and Human Development
- Special Education
- Teacher Education
For more information about these eight interdisciplinary areas, please click here.
Annual special issues provide in-depth examinations of today’s most timely topics in urban education. For more information on special issues, click here.
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ue.
Urban Education is a journal that publishes papers addressing urban issues related to those from birth through graduate school, from both a U.S. and an international perspective. The journal publishes research and conceptual reviews that contribute new, extensive, and expanded knowledge regarding theory, research and/or practice in the field. The journal welcomes reports of qualitative and quantitative empirical studies and theoretical reviews of high quality. The journal is organized around eight main interdisciplinary areas:
- Curriculum and Instruction: Submissions that address curriculum and instructional practices related to urban education. In particular, empirical and theoretical papers that focus succinctly on what students have the opportunity to learn and on instructional practices in P-12 social contexts are welcome. Papers that address general curriculum and instructional practices such as classroom management practices, the sociology of classrooms, identity development, as well as those focusing specifically on curriculum and instruction in a particular subject matter area such as Mathematics, Language Arts, Social Studies/History, Science, Physical Education, Music, and Art are encouraged.
- Counseling and Social Services: Submissions are welcome that address counseling and other social and human services (such as social work).
- Educational Policy: Submissions that address contemporary educational policy and P-12 urban school contexts are encouraged. Policy analyses that penetrate structural and systemic inequity should situate and explicitly demonstrate innovative implications for P-12 educational institutions.
- Equity in Urban Education: On occasion, papers might not focus specifically on an issue outlined above but will have important equity implications for the field of urban education. These empirical and/or conceptual reviews might focus on issues related to race, gender, identity, poverty, sexual orientation, religion, class, socio-economic status, and/or geography.
- Leadership: Submissions that address P-12 leadership (superintendents, principals, assistant principals, teacher leaders, instructional coaches, athletic coaches, and so forth) are encouraged.
- Psychology and Human Development: Submissions are welcome that address psychological and socio-emotional developmental perspectives in urban education.
- Special Education: Submissions are welcome that address special, exceptional, and gifted education in P-12 urban school contexts. Authors are cautioned to refrain from positioning subject participants from/in a deficit perspective.
- Teacher Education: Submissions are welcome that address preparation of both pre-service and in-service teachers for urban educational contexts. In particular, analyses that look structurally at the preparation for teachers and that are grounded in broader policy and theoretical discourses will be considered. Both general teacher preparation and subject matter specific preparation (such as Mathematics, Language Arts, Social Studies/History, Science, Physical Education, Music, and Art) will be considered.
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Global Issues and Perspectives: Manuscripts that are written by international, as well as U.S. authors are encouraged to be submitted. Papers that examine international issues with specific links to urban education are especially encouraged.
| H. Richard Milner IV | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Ira E. Murray | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Laura L. Fittz | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Quaylan Allen | Chapman University, USA |
| Anna Christina da Silva | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Mark A. Gooden | Teachers College, Columbia University, USA |
| Judson Laughter | University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA |
| Abiola Farinde-Wu | University of Massachusetts Boston, USA |
| Paul Cobb | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Gloria J. Ladson-Billings | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Kofi Lomotey | Western Carolina University, USA |
| Pedro A. Noguera | University of Southern California, USA |
| Adam Alvarez | Texas A&M University, USA |
| Brittany Aronson | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Alfredo J. Artiles | Stanford University, USA |
| Aaliyah Baker | University of Dayton, USA |
| Jacob Bennett | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Ioakim Boutakidis | California State University, Fullerton, USA |
| Travis J. Bristol | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Edward Brockenbrough | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Derrick Brooms | Morehouse College, USA |
| Cory Brown | The Ohio State University, USA |
| Keffrelyn D. Brown | The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Roderick L. Carey | University of Delaware, USA |
| Dorinda J. Carter Andrews | Michigan State University, USA |
| Joshua Childs | The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Yiting Chu | University of South Florida, USA |
| Tim Eatman | Rutgers University, USA |
| Mahmoud Emam | Sultan Qaboos University, The Sultanate of Oman |
| Terry Flennaugh | Michigan State University, USA |
| Kaleb Germinaro | University of Illinois Chicago, USA |
| Rubén A. González | University at Buffalo, USA |
| Ain A. Grooms | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Mariah Deans Harmon | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Marc Lamont Hill | City University of New York Graduate Center, USA |
| Huili Hong | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Tyrone Howard | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Adrian Huerta | University of Southern California, USA |
| Terry Husband | Illinois State University, USA |
| Katrina Bartow Jacobs | University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| Lauri Johnson | Boston College, USA |
| Nicole M. Joseph | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Shin Ji Kang | James Madison University, USA |
| Sean Kelly | University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| Brianna Kennedy | University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
| LaGarrett King | University of Buffalo, USA |
| Lydiah Kananu Kiramba | University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA |
| Ben Kirshner | University of Colorado, Boulder, USA |
| Andrew Kwok | Texas A&M University, USA |
| Dena Lane-Bonds | Princeton University, USA |
| Joanne Marciano | Michigan State University, USA |
| Ebony McGee | Johns Hopkins, USA |
| Felicia Mensah | Teachers College, Columbia University, USA |
| Amber J. Pabon | Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Hillary Parkhouse | Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
| Emery Petchauer | Teachers College, Columbia University, USA |
| April Peters-Hawkins | University of Houston, USA |
| Darius Prier | Oklahoma State University, USA |
| Sandra Quiñones | University of Connecticut, USA |
| F. Blake Tenore | Florida State University, USA |
| Sharon Tettegah | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Josh Tolbert | Indiana University East, USA |
| Chris Torres | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA |
| Stanley C. Trent | University of Virginia, USA |
| Richard Welsh | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Anjalé Devawn Welton | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Dorothy Y. White | University of Georgia, USA |
| John A. Williams | Texas A&M University, USA |
| Sheneka Williams | Michigan State University, USA |
| Jonee Wilson | University of Virginia, USA |
Manuscripts should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ue. Submitting authors and co-authors will create user accounts that will allow them to upload manuscripts, supporting documents and revisions. Submitting authors and co-authors will also be able to track the progress of their submissions and take advantage of streamlined communication as the manuscripts complete the peer review process. Please note that the turnaround is 4 to 6 months for decisions on original and revised manuscripts. Online submissions must adhere to the following submission guidelines:
Submission Guidelines for Manuscripts to be Reviewed
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Manuscripts should be formatted for 8 ½ x 11" paper. Margins should be one inch on all sides.
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Follow the style guidelines of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.).
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Justify margins on the left side only. Do not justify margins on both sides.
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Double-space the entire document, including the bibliography.
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Include a 100-word abstract.
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Within the text, use parenthetical references following APA style. All references in the bibliography should be cited in text. All references in the text should be cited in the bibliography.
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Do not include the author’s name or other identifying information in the header, footer or the text of the document. The author should send her/his contact information, including mailing address, phone and fax numbers, and email address on a separate page.
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Contributing authors’ information – mailing address, phone and fax numbers, and email address – should be included with the primary author’s information.
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All documents should be submitted in Word format.
Please contact the editor directly at urbaneducationjournal@gmail.com with additional questions.
Authors of manuscripts accepted for publication will be sent a separate set of guidelines for submission to the publisher.
For Empirical Peer Review Guidelines, click here.
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To view the Special Issue Proposal Guidelines, please click here.
Sage Choice
If you or your funder wish your article to be freely available online to nonsubscribers immediately upon publication (gold open access), you can opt for it to be included in SAGE Choice, subject to payment of a publication fee. The manuscript submission and peer review procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let SAGE know directly if you are choosing SAGE Choice. To check journal eligibility and the publication fee, please visit SAGE Choice. For more information on open access options and compliance at SAGE, including self author archiving deposits (green open access) visit SAGE Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.
For more information, please refer to the SAGE Manuscript Submission Guidelines.