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Mayors in the middle : politics, race, and mayoral control of urban schools / edited by Jeffrey R. Henig and Wilbur C. Rich.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Princeton paperbacks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Urban--Political aspects--United States--Case studies.
- Education, Urban.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : 7 line illus. 18 tables.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2004]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Desperate to jump-start the reform process in America's urban schools, politicians, scholars, and school advocates increasingly are looking to mayors for leadership. But does a stronger mayoral role represent bold institutional change with real potential to improve big city schools, or just the latest in the copycat world of school reform du jour? Is it democratic? Why have efforts to put mayors in charge so often generated resistance along racial dividing lines? Public debate and scholarly analysis have shied away from confronting such issues head on. Mayors in the Middle brings together, for students of education policy and urban politics as well as scholars and school advocates, the most thoughtful and original analyses of the promise and limitations of mayoral takeovers of schools.
- Contents:
- PART 1. INTRODUCTION
- Mayor-centrism in context / Jeffrey R. Henig, Wilbur C. Rich
- PART 2. CASE STUDIES
- Baltimore: the limits of mayoral control / Marion Orr
- Chicago: the national "model" reexamined / Dorothy Shipps
- Boston: agenda setting and school reform in a mayor-centric system / John Portz
- Detroit: "there is still a long road to travel, and success is far from assured" / Jeffrey Mirel
- Cleveland: takeovers and makeovers are not the same / Wilbur C. Rich, Stefanie Chambers
- Washington, D.C.: race, issue definition, and school board restructuring / Jeffrey R. Henig
- PART 3. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
- Structure, politics, and policy: the logic of mayoral control / Kenneth J. Meier
- Mayors and the challenge of modernization / Clarence N. Stone
- Concluding observations: governance structure as a tool, not a solution / Jeffrey R. Henig, Wilbur C. Rich.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691115078
- 0691115079
- OCLC:
- 1226679079
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