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Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform

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Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform

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University of Pennsylvania Press
Language
English
Pages
304

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Subjects
Urban schools, African American school superintendents, Educational change, Education, African Americans, African American school principals, Ursinus College, Faculty Authors, African americans, education, School superintendents and principals, Education, united states
People
Marcus A. Foster (1923-1973)
Places
United States, Pennsylvania, Oakland, California, Philadelphia

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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Philadelphia
Series
Politics and culture in modern America

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Dewey Decimal Class
370.92, B
Library of Congress
LA2317.F677 S64 2012, LA2317.F677S64 2012

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
304

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OL25198068M
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1283898284
ISBN 13
9780812244359
LCCN
2012002587
OCLC/WorldCat
775271590

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