Bibliograph

In the crossfire, Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform, John P. Spencer

Type

Label

In the crossfire, Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform, John P. Spencer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-291) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In the crossfire

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

775271590

Responsibility statement

John P. Spencer

Series statement

Politics and culture in modern America

Sub title

Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform

Table Of Contents

Schooling as social reform: racial uplift, liberalism, and the making of a black educator -- Combating cultural deprivation: urban educators and the war on poverty -- Victims, not hoodlums: urban schools and the crisis of liberalism -- Black power, "people power": holding schools accountable for black achievement -- Beyond community control: accountability and achievement in the Oakland public schools -- Epilogue: legacies of the 1960s in American school reform

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