A Good Investment? : Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School /

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Select students and teachers worked the room at a fundraising event for a New York City public high school the author calls College Preparatory Academy. It was their job to convince wealthy attendants that College Prep, with its largely minority and disadvantaged student body and its unusually high...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brown, Amy, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Public schools.
Educational fund raising.
Education > Social aspects.
African Americans > Education.
Academic achievement.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
EDUCATION > Secondary.
Noirs americains > Éducation > New York (État) > New York.
Éducation > Collecte de fonds > New York (État) > New York.
Écoles publiques > New York (État) > New York.
Academic achievement > New York (State) > New York.
African Americans > Education > New York (State) > New York.
Education > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York.
Educational fund raising > New York (State) > New York.
Public schools > New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Privatization and political spectacle in education
  • 1. A mind is a wonderful thing to invest in: philanthropy and the New York City public schools
  • 2. The College Prep look: managing image, marketing students
  • 3. Walk the walk, talk the talk: professionalism at College Prep
  • 4. Waiting for superwoman: white female teachers as "neoliberal saviors"
  • 5. Girl drama: black female students and the spectacle of risk
  • 6. Critical thinking: reading urban fiction with students
  • 7. Behind the mask: professionalism and life after College Prep.

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