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The Roots of Educational Inequality : Philadelphia's Germantown High School, 1907-2014 /
The Roots of Educational Inequality chronicles the transformation of one American high school over the course of the twentieth century to explore the larger political, economic, and social factors that have contributed to the escalation of educational inequality in modern America.In 1914, when Germa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Campaign for an Elite Public High School in Philadelphia's Suburban Sanctuary, 1907-1914
- Chapter 2. Philanthropy Sustains Philadelphia's Expanding Public School System, 1914-1920
- Chapter 3. Philadelphia's Reliance on Philanthropy Begins to Crack, 1929-1940
- Chapter 4. Philadelphia Mobilizes for War, In equality on the Homefront Escalates, 1941-1957
- Chapter 5. Urban Renewal, Urban Unrest, and the Threat of a "Poverty- Stricken Negro Ghetto," 1958-1967
- Chapter 6. The Emergence of an "Urban" School System: Fiscal Shortages, Labor Strikes, and Stalled Desegregation, 1968-1981
- Chapter 7. Philadelphia School Leaders Fight to Restore and Control Philadelphia's Public Schools, 1982-2000
- Chapter 8. Philadelphia Implements the "Largest and Boldest Experiment" in Urban Public Education, 2002-2011
- Chapter 9. School Officials Close Schools to "Save" Philadelphia's Public School System
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments