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

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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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Otros Autores: Stone, Clarence N. (Contribuidor), Shipps, Dorothy (Contribuidor), Henig, Jeffrey R. (Editor , Contribuidor), Mirel, Jeffrey (Contribuidor), Portz, John (Contribuidor), Meier, Kenneth J. (Contribuidor), Orr, Marion (Contribuidor), Rich, Wilbur C. (Editor , Contribuidor), Chambers, Stefanie (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Temas:
EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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