| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 301 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Civic capacity, race, and education in black-led cities -- Racial change and the politics of transition -- The elusiveness of education reform -- Race and the political economy of big-city schools -- Parental and community participation in education reform -- Black leaders, white businesses -- The role of external actors -- School reform as if politics and race matter |
| Summary |
Why is it so difficult to design and implement fundamental educational reform in large city schools in spite of broad popular support for change? How does the politics of race complicate the challenge of building and sustaining coalitions for improving urban schools? These questions have provoked a great deal of theorizing, but this is the first book to explore the issues on the basis of extensive, solid evidence. Here a group of political scientists examines education reform in Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., where local governmental authority has passed from white to black |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Education, Urban -- Social aspects -- United States
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Education, Urban -- Political aspects -- United States
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Children of minorities -- Education -- United States
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Educational change -- United States
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EDUCATION -- History.
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EDUCATION -- Comparative.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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Children of minorities -- Education.
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Education, Urban -- Political aspects.
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Education, Urban -- Social aspects.
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Educational change.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Henig, Jeffrey R., 1951-
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| ISBN |
9781400823291 |
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1400823293 |
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