Mayors in the Middle : : Politics, Race, and Mayoral Control of Urban Schools /

Mayors in the Middle : : Politics, Race, and Mayoral Control of Urban Schools / / Jeffrey R. Henig, Wilbur C. Rich.

Desperate to jump-start the reform process in America's urban schools, politicians, scholars, and school advocates are looking increasingly to mayors for leadership. But does a stronger mayoral role represent bold institutional change with real potential to improve big-city schools, or just the...

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MitwirkendeR:
Stone, Clarence N.,
Shipps, Dorothy,
Henig, Jeffrey R.,
Mirel, Jeffrey,
Portz, John,
Meier, Kenneth J.,
Orr, Marion,
Chambers, Stefanie,
Rich, Wilbur C.,
HerausgeberIn:
Henig, Jeffrey R.,
Rich, Wilbur C.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2004
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 7 line illus. 18 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Contributors
  • PART 1. INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter One. Mayor-centrism in Context
  • PART 2. CASE STUDIES
  • Chapter Two. Baltimore: The Limits of Mayoral Control
  • Chapter Three. Chicago: The National "Model" Reexamined
  • Chapter Four. Boston: Agenda Setting and School Reform in a Mayor-centric System
  • Chapter Five. Detroit: "There Is Still a Long Road to Travel, and Success Is Far from Assured."
  • Chapter Six. Cleveland: Takeovers and Makeovers Are Not the Same
  • Chapter Seven. Washington, D.C.: Race, Issue Definition, and School Board Restructuring
  • PART 3. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
  • Chapter Eight. Structure, Politics, and Policy: The Logic of Mayoral Control
  • Chapter Nine. Mayors and the Challenge of Modernization
  • Chapter Ten. Concluding Observations: Governance Structure as a Tool, Not a Solution
  • Index

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