In the crossfire [electronic resource] : Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform / John P. Spencer.

By: Spencer, John PalmerContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Politics and culture in modern AmericaPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 304 p. : illISBN: 9780812207668 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Foster, Marcus A., 1923-1973 | African Americans -- Education | Educational change -- United States | African American school principals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | African American school superintendents -- California -- Oakland | Urban schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Urban schools -- California -- OaklandGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 370.92 | B LOC classification: LA2317.F677 | S64 2012Online resources: Click to View
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-291) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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