In the crossfire : Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Spencer, John Palmer
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Politics and culture in modern America.
Subjects:	Foster, Marcus A., > 1923-1973. Urban schools > California > Oakland. Urban schools > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia. African American school superintendents > California > Oakland. African American school principals > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia. Educational change > United States. African Americans > Education. Electronic books.
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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.