In the crossfire [electronic resource] : Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform / John P. Spencer.
Series: Politics and culture in modern AmericaPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 304 p. : illISBN:- 9780812244359 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780812207668 (e-book)
- Foster, Marcus A., 1923-1973
- African Americans -- Education
- Educational change -- United States
- African American school principals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- African American school superintendents -- California -- Oakland
- Urban schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Urban schools -- California -- Oakland
- 370.92 B 23
- LA2317.F677 S64 2012eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-291) 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.