The Color of School Reform : : Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education / / Jeffrey R. Henig, Desiree S. Pedescleaux, Marion Orr, Richard C. Hula.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2001] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One. Civic Capacity, Race, and EducationinBlack-Le d Cities
- Chapter Two. Racial Change and the Politics of Transition
- Chapter Three. The Elusiveness of Education Reform
- Chapter Four. Race and the Political Economy of Big-City Schools: Teachers and Preachers
- Chapter Five. Parental and Community Participation in Education Reform
- Chapter Six. Black Leaders, White Businesses: Racial Tensions and the Construction of Public-Private Partnerships in Education
- Chapter Seven. The Role of External Actors
- Chapter Eight. School Reform As If Politics and Race Matter
- Index