When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools : Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education /

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In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to-and often end up becoming active in-urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn Posey-Maddox shows in this study, it can also introduce...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Posey-Maddox, Linn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]
Temas:
Community and school > United States.
Discrimination in education > United States.
Education > Parent participation > United States.
Middle class > Education > United States.
Public schools > United States.
School management and organization > Parent participation > United States.
Segregation in education > United States.
Urban schools > Social aspects > United States.
EDUCATION / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ONE. Middle-Class Parents and City School Transformation
  • TWO. Reconceptualizing the "Urban": Examining Race, Class, and Demographic Change in Cities and Their Public Schools
  • THREE. Building a "Critical Mass": Neighborhood Parent Group Action for School Change
  • FOUR. The (Re)Making of a Good Public School: Parent and Teacher Views of a Changing School Community
  • FIVE.Professionalizing the MPTO: Race, Class, and Shifting Norms for "Active" Parents
  • SIX. Morningside Revisited
  • SEVEN. Maintaining a "Commitment to Everyone": Toward a Vision of Equitable Development in Urban Public Schooling
  • APPENDIX A. Social Class Categories
  • APPENDIX B. Methodological Approach
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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