| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
304 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Politics and culture in modern America
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Politics and culture in modern America.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
As a teacher, principal, and superintendent-- first in his native Philadelphia and eventually in Oakland, California-- Foster made success stories of urban schools and children whom others had dismissed as hopeless, only to be assassinated in 1973 by the previously unknown Symbionese Liberation Army in a bizarre protest against an allegedly racist school system. Foster's story encapsulates larger social changes in the decades after World War II. By focusing on an educator who worked in the trenches and had a reputation for bridging divisions, Spencer sheds new light on the continuing ideological debates over race, poverty, and achievement. |
| Subject |
Foster, Marcus A., 1923-1973.
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Foster, Marcus A., 1923-1973. |
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African Americans -- Education.
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African Americans -- Education. |
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Educational change -- United States.
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Educational change. |
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United States. |
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African American school principals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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African American school principals. |
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Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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African American school superintendents -- California -- Oakland.
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African American school superintendents. |
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California -- Oakland. |
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Urban schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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Urban schools. |
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Urban schools -- California -- Oakland.
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| ISBN |
9780812244359 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0812244354 hardcover alkaline paper |
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