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When middle-class parents choose urban schools : class, race, and the challenge of equity in public education /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Posey-Maddox, Linn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of 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 SchoolingAppendix A / Social Class Categories; Appendix B / Methodological Approach; Notes; References; Index.