A Political Education : Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s /

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"In 2012, Chicago's school year began with the city's first teachers' strike in a quarter century and ended with the largest mass closure of public schools in U.S. history. On one side, a union leader and veteran black woman educator drew upon organizing strategies from black and...

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Main Author: Todd-Breland, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018].
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Strikes and lockouts > Teachers.
Educational change.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Greves et lock-out > Enseignants > Illinois > Chicago.
Noirs americains > Activite politique > Illinois > Chicago.
Enseignement > Reforme > Illinois > Chicago.
Strikes and lockouts > Teachers > Illinois > Chicago.
African Americans > Political activity > Illinois > Chicago.
Educational change > Illinois > Chicago.
Illinois > Chicago.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The politics of black achievement
  • The rise and fall of the desegregation paradigm
  • Community control
  • Building independent black institutions
  • Teacher power: black teachers and the politics of representation
  • Power, resources, and representation
  • Chicago school reform: Harold Washington and a new era of decentralization
  • Corporate school reform: magnets, charters, and the neoliberal educational order.

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