Spencer, John Palmer. <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-291) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780812207668 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Foster, Marcus A., 1923-1973. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans--Education.<br/>Educational change--United States.<br/>African American school principals--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.<br/>African American school superintendents--California--Oakland.<br/>Urban schools--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.<br/>Urban schools--California--Oakland.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LA2317.F677  / S64 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>370.92  B