TY - BOOK AU - Spencer,John Palmer ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - In the crossfire: Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform AV - LA2317.F677 S64 2012 U1 - 370.92B 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - Foster, Marcus A., KW - African Americans KW - Education KW - Educational change KW - United States KW - African American school principals KW - Pennsylvania KW - Philadelphia KW - African American school superintendents KW - California KW - Oakland KW - Urban schools KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3441855 ER -