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In the crossfire : Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform /
As a teacher, principal, and superintendent-- first in his native Philadelphia and eventually in Oakland, California-- Foster made success stories of urban schools and children whom others had dismissed as hopeless, only to be assassinated in 1973 by the previously unknown Symbionese Liberation Army...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Politics and culture in modern America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Schooling as social reform: racial uplift, liberalism, and the making of a black educator
- Combating cultural deprivation: urban educators and the war on poverty
- Victims, not hoodlums: urban schools and the crisis of liberalism
- Black power, "people power": holding schools accountable for black achievement
- Beyond community control: accountability and achievement in the Oakland public schools
- Epilogue: legacies of the 1960s in American school reform.