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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
©2004.
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Series: | Princeton paperbacks.
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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.