In the crossfire Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform / [electronic resource] :
John P. Spencer.
- 1st ed.
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012.
- 304 p. : ill.
- Politics and culture in modern America .
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.
9780812207668 (electronic bk.)
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--Oakland.