In the crossfire
Subtitle: Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform
By: John P. Spencer
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Politics and culture in modern America
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780812244359
Subjects: African American school superintendents; Urban schools; Educational change; Education; African Americans; African American school principals
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Schooling as social reform: racial uplift, liberalism, and the making of a black educator; title: Combating cultural deprivation: urban educators and the war on poverty; title: Victims, not hoodlums: urban schools and the crisis of liberalism; title: Black power, "people power": holding schools accountable for black achievement; title: Beyond community control: accountability and achievement in the Oakland public schools; title: Epilogue: legacies of the 1960s in American school reform.