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

Desperate to jump-start the reform process in America's urban schools, politicians, scholars, and school advocates increasingly are looking 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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Rich, Wilbur C., Henig, Jeffrey R., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART 1. INTRODUCTION
  • Mayor-centrism in context / Jeffrey R. Henig, Wilbur C. Rich
  • PART 2. CASE STUDIES
  • Baltimore: the limits of mayoral control / Marion Orr
  • Chicago: the national "model" reexamined / Dorothy Shipps
  • Boston: agenda setting and school reform in a mayor-centric system / John Portz
  • Detroit: "there is still a long road to travel, and success is far from assured" / Jeffrey Mirel
  • Cleveland: takeovers and makeovers are not the same / Wilbur C. Rich, Stefanie Chambers
  • Washington, D.C.: race, issue definition, and school board restructuring / Jeffrey R. Henig
  • PART 3. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
  • Structure, politics, and policy: the logic of mayoral control / Kenneth J. Meier
  • Mayors and the challenge of modernization / Clarence N. Stone
  • Concluding observations: governance structure as a tool, not a solution / Jeffrey R. Henig, Wilbur C. Rich.