In the crossfire Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform /
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10642190 |
Table of 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.