These six issues examine education in the inner cities. Titles include: "Pathways to School/Community/Family Partnership Results: Measures of Success and Student Learning" (e.g., promoting community partnerships and active learning through federal policy and linking child development knowledge with partnership evaluation); "Emerging Models of Governing School Districts" (e.g., redesigning public schools to improve student performance and changing governance structures in the Chicago Public Schools); "Research-Based Lessons from Title I Implementation: Examining Different Strategies for Improving Student Outcomes" (e.g., using standards-based assessment for Title I accountability and program improvement and teacher quality and educational inequality in Title I schools); "Closing the Academic Achievement Gap: Successful Strategies for Educators, Schools, and Communities" (e.g., developing successful intelligence in all children and children of immigrants and their achievement); "Can Unlike Students Learn Together? Research and Recommendations on Grade Retention, Tracking, and Grouping" (e.g., dropout in relation to grade retention and race-ethnicity, social background, and grade retention); and "Social-Emotional Learning and School Success: Maximizing Children's Potential by Integrating Thinking, Feeling, Behavior" (e.g., the learner-centered psychological principles and cooperation, conflict resolution, and civic values as the three C's of social and emotional learning). (SM)