Mayors in the middle : politics, race, and mayoral control of urban schools /

Show other versions (1)

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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Henig, Jeffrey R., 1951-, Rich, Wilbur C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2004.
Series:Princeton paperbacks.
Subjects:
Lyzeum Frankenhausen
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Education, Urban > Political aspects > United States > Case studies.
Urban policy > United States > Case studies.
Mayors > United States > Case studies.
Education and state > United States > Case studies.
Enseignement en milieu urbain > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Politique urbaine > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Maires > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Éducation > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Études de cas.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
Education and state
Education, Urban > Political aspects
Mayors
Urban policy
Schulpolitik
Stadt
Schule
Éducation et État > États-Unis.
Maires > États-Unis.
Politique urbaine > États-Unis.
Enseignement en milieu urbain > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Minorités > Education > Etats-Unis.
United States
USA
Case studies.
Case studies
Études de cas.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

Similar Items