MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2012002587
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005 20121212085356.0
008 120131s2012 pau b 001 0deng c
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020 $a9780812244359 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aLA2317.F677$bS64 2012
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100 1 $aSpencer, John Palmer
245 10 $aIn the crossfire :$bMarcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform /$cJohn P. Spencer.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$cc2012.
300 $a304 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aPolitics and culture in modern America
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-291) and index.
505 0 $aSchooling 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.
600 10 $aFoster, Marcus A.,$d1923-1973.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xEducation.
650 0 $aEducational change$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAfrican American school principals$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia.
650 0 $aAfrican American school superintendents$zCalifornia$zOakland.
650 0 $aUrban schools$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia.
650 0 $aUrban schools$zCalifornia$zOakland.
830 0 $aPolitics and culture in modern America.