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Author Lipman, Pauline, 1944-

Title High stakes education : inequality, globalization, and urban school reform / Pauline Lipman.

Publication Info. New York ; London : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 227 pages).
Illinois language
text file
Series Critical social thought
Critical social thought.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Globalization, economic restructuring, and urban education -- Chicago school reform and its political, economic, and cultural context -- Accountability, social differentiation, and racialized social control -- "Like a hammer just knocking them down": regulating African American schools -- The policies and politics of cultural assimilation coauthored with Eric Gutstein -- "It's us versus the Board -- the enemy": race, class, and the power to oppose -- Beyond accountability: toward schools that create new people for a new way of life -- Methodological appendix.
Summary Noted scholar Pauline Lipman explores the implications of education accountability reforms, particularly in urban schools, in the current political, economic, and cultural context of intensifying globalization and increasing social inequality and marginalization along lines of race and class.
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Subject Chicago (Ill.). Board of Education.
Chicago (Ill.). Board of Education.
Education, Urban -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
Education, Urban -- Social aspects.
Illinois -- Chicago.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Education, Urban.
Discrimination in education -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
Discrimination in education.
School improvement programs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
School improvement programs.
Educational accountability -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
Educational accountability.
Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Lipman, Pauline, 1944- High stakes education. New York ; London : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004 (DLC) 2004041866
ISBN 0203465504 (electronic book)
9780203465509 (electronic book)
0415935075 (Cloth)
0415935083 (paperback ; alkaline paper)