Race and Educational Reform in the American Metropolis

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Race and Educational Reform in the American Metropolis
A Study of School Decentralization

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Dan A. Lewis - Author
Kathryn Nakagawa - Author

SUNY series, Frontiers in Education

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Hardcover - 211 pages

Release Date: January 1995

ISBN10: 0-7914-2133-3
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-2133-8

Price: $32.95
Paperback - 211 pages

Release Date: December 1994

ISBN10: 0-7914-2134-1
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-2134-5

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Summary

"The book combines a concern for the education of African-Americans with a broader concern for urban school politics and the issues of decentralization. This is a powerful combination of issues that this book effectively weaves into a coherent analysis." -- Philip G. Altbach, State University of New York at Buffalo

"The book offers a broad, structural perspective on school reform in the past twenty years. Too often research on education reform tends to take a narrow view that fails to link the school system to societal transformation. I believe that the book will contribute to our understanding of school decentralization, which the authors defined in terms of 'a general societal movement to include marginal groups within the broader institutional protection of civil society.' The book also examines the important issue of the impact of school reform on racial equity in the changing urban context. Finally, it usefully differentiates two modes of parental involvement--empowerment and enablement. The limits of parental participation, as suggested by this study, are likely to have broad policy implications on the next round of school reform." -- Kenneth Wong, University of Chicago

Dan A. Lewis is Professor of Education and Social Policy at the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Northwestern University, and Vice President for Public Policy of the Mental Health Association in Illinois. He has also written Worlds of the Mentally Ill and The State Mental Patient and Urban Life. Kathryn Nakagawa is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of California, Irvine.

Table of Contents

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Decentralization: The Ideologies of Inclusion and Deinstitutionalization

2. Big Cities and Patterns of Decentralization

3. New York City and Detroit: Empowerment in Perspective

4. Creating Enablement: Dade County and Los Angeles

5. Chicago Overview: Empowerment Today

6. Representative Democracy: Comparing and Contrasting the Attitudes of Chicago Parents

7. Enablement or Empowerment? The Workings of the Local School Council

9. Conclusion

Appendix

References

Author index

Subject index

Related Subjects

African American Studies
American Culture
Educational Administration
Education
Education Policy and Leadership
Educational Research
Political Sociology
Social Context of Education
Sociology
Social Change

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