The Color of School Reform : Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education /

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Why is it so difficult to design and implement fundamental educational reform in large city schools in spite of broad popular support for change? How does the politics of race complicate the challenge of building and sustaining coalitions for improving urban schools? These questions have provoked a...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Henig, Jeffrey R., 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2001, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Educational change.
Education, Urban > Social aspects.
Education, Urban > Political aspects.
Children of minorities > Education.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION > Comparative.
EDUCATION > History.
Enseignement > Reforme > États-Unis.
Enfants issus des minorites > Éducation > États-Unis.
Enseignement en milieu urbain > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Enseignement en milieu urbain > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Educational change > United States.
Children of minorities > Education > United States.
Education, Urban > Political aspects > United States.
Education, Urban > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Civic capacity, race, and education in black-led cities
  • Racial change and the politics of transition
  • The elusiveness of education reform
  • Race and the political economy of big-city schools
  • Parental and community participation in education reform
  • Black leaders, white businesses
  • The role of external actors
  • School reform as if politics and race matter.

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