Seeds of Crisis: Public Schooling in Milwaukee Since 1920

by John L. Rury

Book Overview

Beset by such controversies as whether they have the right to search students' lockers for guns and drugs, big city schools are making adjustments unimaginable in earlier eras, when detention was still sufficient for keeping order. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is one city trying to cope with the educational challenges of the twentieth century. Seeds of Crisis examines the ways in which these challenges have affected the politics of education, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299138143
• ISBN13: 9780299138141
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"