In the crossfire [electronic resource] : Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform / John P. Spencer.
Material type: TextSeries: Politics and culture in modern America | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012. 2015)Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (352 p.)ISBN:- 9780812207668
- 0812207661
- 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
- 370.92 B 23
- LA2317.F677 S64 2012
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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