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The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education
Jeffrey R. Henig
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Paperback. Why is it so difficult to design and implement fundamental educational reform in large city schools in spite of broad popular support for change? This work examines education reform in Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, and Washington, DC, where local governmental authority has passed from white to black leaders. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JNK; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
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 leaders. The authors show that black ... Read more
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 leaders. The authors show that black ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691088976
SKU
V9780691088976
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About Jeffrey R. Henig
Jeffrey R. Henig is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Washington Area Studies at George Washington University and author of Rethinking School Choice Richard C. Hula is Professor of Political Science and Urban Affairs at Michigan State and author of Market-Based Public Policy and The Reconstruction of Family Policy. Marion Orr is Associate Professor of Political ... Read more
Reviews for The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education
Winner of the 2000 Best Book Award, Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association "[The authors] have plainly done their homework. They have reviewed thousands of news clips and official reports, conducted scores of interviews and surveyed a wide array of influential actors... Although the authors are plainly sympathetic to the aspirations of the reformers, they have checked ... Read more