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Author Spencer, John Palmer

Title In the crossfire : Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform / John P. Spencer
Edition 1st ed
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (304 pages)
Series Politics and culture in modern America
Politics and culture in modern America.
Contents Schooling as social reform: racial uplift, liberalism, and the making of a black educator -- Combating cultural deprivation: urban educators and the war on poverty -- Victims, not hoodlums: urban schools and the crisis of liberalism -- Black power, "people power": holding schools accountable for black achievement -- Beyond community control: accountability and achievement in the Oakland public schools -- Epilogue: legacies of the 1960s in American school reform
Summary As a teacher, principal, and superintendent-- first in his native Philadelphia and eventually in Oakland, California-- Foster made success stories of urban schools and children whom others had dismissed as hopeless, only to be assassinated in 1973 by the previously unknown Symbionese Liberation Army in a bizarre protest against an allegedly racist school system. Foster's story encapsulates larger social changes in the decades after World War II. By focusing on an educator who worked in the trenches and had a reputation for bridging divisions, Spencer sheds new light on the continuing ideological debates over race, poverty, and achievement
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-291) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Foster, Marcus A., 1923-1973.
SUBJECT Foster, Marcus A., 1923-1973
Foster, Marcus A., 1923-1973 fast
Subject African Americans -- Education.
Educational change -- United States
African American school principals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
African American school superintendents -- California -- Oakland
Urban schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Urban schools -- California -- Oakland
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
African American school principals
African American school superintendents
African Americans -- Education
Educational change
Urban schools
California -- Oakland
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
United States
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1283898284
9781283898287
9780812207668
0812207661