Date: December 11th 2008

Hello all,

The Journal of Urban Mathematics Education has just published its inaugural issue
at http://education.gsu.edu/JUME. We invite you to review the Table of
Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of
interest. We wanted to share this announcement with you before we announced
it on a large scale.

Special thanks to the hard work of the editorial team, advisory board, our
reviewers and all of the authors that contributed to the historic launch
effort.

EDITORIAL
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Illuminating Urban Excellence: A Movement of Change within Mathematics
Education (pp. 1-4)
Lou Edward Matthews

COMMENTARY
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Putting the "Urban" in Mathematics Education Scholarship (pp. 5-9)
William F. Tate

ARTICLES
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Racism, Assessment, and Instructional Practices: Implications for
Mathematics Teachers of African American Students (pp. 10-34)
Julius Davis, Danny Bernard Martin

Learning Mathematics in a Borderland Position: Students’ Foregrounds and
Intentionality in a Brazilian Favela (pp. 35-59)
Ole Skovsmose, Pedro Paulo Scandiuzzi, Paola Valero, Helle Alro

Math Links: Building Learning Communities in Urban Settings (pp. 60-83)
Jacqueline Leonard, Brian R. Evans

Practices Worthy of Attention: A Search For Existence Proofs of Promising
Practitioner Work in Secondary Mathematics (pp. 84-107)
Pamela L. Paek


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JUME - Journal of Urban Mathematics Education
http://education.gsu.edu/jume

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
Lou Edward Matthews
Editor-in-Chief
Georgia State University
Phone 4044138060
lmatthews@gsu.edu