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In the crossfire : Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform
- Title
- In the crossfire : Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform / John P. Spencer.
- Author
- Spencer, John Palmer.
- Publication
- Philadelphia, Penn. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
- ©2012
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- Description
- 304 p.; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Politics and culture in modern America
- Uniform Title
- Politics and culture in modern America.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 13-283
- ISBN
- 9780812244359 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0812244354 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012002587
- OCLC
- 775271590
- Author
- Spencer, John Palmer.
- Title
- In the crossfire : Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform / John P. Spencer.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia, Penn. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
- Copyright Date
- ©2012
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- Politics and culture in modern AmericaPolitics and culture in modern America.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 13-283