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In the crossfire : Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform / John P. Spencer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spencer, John Palmer.
- Series:
- Politics and culture in modern America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- 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.
- Educational change.
- African American school principals.
- African American school superintendents.
- Urban schools.
- United States.
- African Americans--Education.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- California--Oakland.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Penn Press e-books.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780812207668
- 0812207661
- OCLC:
- 821733734
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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