The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education by Henig, Jeffrey R.
The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education by Henig, Jeffrey R.

The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education

Why is it so difficult to design and implement fundamental educational reform in large city schools in...
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The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education by Henig, Jeffrey R.

The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education

€128,85
The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education by Henig, Jeffrey R.

The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education

€128,85
Author: Jeffrey R. Henig
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

In each city examined, reform efforts often arise but collapse, partly because leaders are unable to craft effective political coalitions that would commit community resources to a concrete policy agenda. What undermines the leadership, according to the authors, is the complex role of race in each city. First, public authority does not guarantee access to private resources, usually still controlled by white economic elites. Second, local authorities must interact with external actors, at the state and national levels, who remain predominantly white. Finally, issues of race divide the African American community itself and often place limits on what leaders can and cannot do. Filled with insightful explanations together with recommendations for policy change, this book is an important component of the debate now being waged among researchers, education activists, and the community as a whole.

Author: Jeffrey R. Henig, Richard C. Hula, Marion Orr
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 02/11/2001
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9780691088976

About the Author

Jeffrey R. Henig is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Washington Area Studies at George Washington University. His books include Rethinking School Choice (Princeton). Richard C. Hula is Professor of Political Science and Urban Affairs at Michigan State University and is the author of Market-Based Public Policy and The Reconstruction of Family Policy.
Marion Orr is Associate Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies at Brown University and is the author of Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, 1986-1998. Desiree S. Pedescleaux is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Spelman College.


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