Keeping the "Welcome Sign" Lit: A Review of Building Mathematics Learning Communities: Improving Outcomes in Urban High Schools

Abstract

KAYLA D. MYERS is a PhD student in the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education in the College of Education and Human Development, at Georgia State University, P.O. Box 3978, Atlanta, GA 30302; email: kmyers@gsu.edu. Her research interests include mathematics teacher education and development; teachers’ transitions from the university setting to the mathematics classroom; and issues of power, identity, and subjectivity through discursive practices in mathematics learning communities. BOOK REVIEW