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Description

1. 1 online resource (304 p.)

Series statement

1. Politics and culture in modern America

Uniform title

1. In the crossfire (Online)
2. Politics and culture in modern America.

Alternative title

1. In the crossfire (Online)

Subject

1. Foster, Marcus A., 1923-1973
2. African Americans > Education
3. Educational change > United States
4. African American school principals > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
5. African American school superintendents > California > Oakland
6. Urban schools > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
7. Urban schools > California > Oakland

Contents

1. 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.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-291) and index.

Access (note)

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Author

1. Spencer, John Palmer.

Title

1. In the crossfire [electronic resource] : Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform / John P. Spencer.

Imprint

1. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012.

Edition

1. 1st ed.

Series

1. Politics and culture in modern America
2. Politics and culture in modern America.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-291) and index.

Access

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

1. Available from home with a valid library card
2. Available onsite at NYPL

LCCN

1. 2012002587