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1 online resource (xi, 204 pages .) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations and Tables; Acknowledgments; One / Middle-Class Parents and City School Transformation; Two / Reconceptualizing the "Urban": Examining Race, Class, and Demographic Change in Cities and Their Public Schools; Three / Building a "Critical Mass": Neighborhood Parent Group Action for School Change; Four / The (Re)Making of a Good Public School: Parent and Teacher Views of a Changing School Community; Five / Professionalizing the MPTO: Race, Class, and Shifting Norms for "Active" Parents; Six / Morningside Revisited. |
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Seven / Maintaining a "Commitment to Everyone": Toward a Vision of Equitable Development in Urban Public SchoolingAppendix A / Social Class Categories; Appendix B / Methodological Approach; Notes; References; Index. |
| Summary |
In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to-and often end up becoming active in-urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn Posey-Maddox shows in this study, it can also introduce new class and race tensions, and even exacerbate inequalities. Sensitively navigating the pros and cons of middle-class transformation, When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools asks whether it is possible for our urban public schools to have both financial security and equitable d. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Urban schools -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Urban schools -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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Urban schools. |
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Middle class -- Education -- United States.
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Middle class -- Education. |
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Public schools -- United States.
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Public schools. |
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Education -- Parent participation -- United States.
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Education -- Parent participation. |
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School management and organization -- Parent participation -- United States.
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School management and organization -- Parent participation. |
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Community and school -- United States.
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Community and school. |
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Discrimination in education -- United States.
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Discrimination in education. |
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Segregation in education -- United States.
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Segregation in education. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Posey-Maddox, Linn. When middle-class parents choose urban schools. 9780226120188 022612018X (DLC) 2013027589 |
| ISBN |
022612035X (electronic book) |
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9780226120355 (electronic book) |
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1306417104 |
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9781306417105 |
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9780226120188 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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022612018X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226120218 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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022612021X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
