The Color of School Reform Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education【電子書籍】[ Jeffrey R. Henig ]

＜p＞Why is it so difficult to design and implement fundamental educational reform in large city schools in spite of broad popular support for change? How does the politics of race complicate the challenge of building and sustaining coalitions for improving urban schools? These questions have provoked a great deal of theorizing, but this is the first book to explore the issues on the basis of extensive, solid evidence. Here a group of political scientists examines education reform in Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., where local governmental authority has passed from white to black leaders. The authors show that black administrative control of big-city school systems has not translated into broad improvements in the quality of public education within black-led cities. Race can be crucial, however, in fostering the broad civic involvement perhaps most needed for school reform.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In each city examined, reform efforts often arise but collapse, partly because leaders ar．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る