The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education

by Jeffrey R. Henig and Richard C. Hula

Book Overview

Why is it so difficult to design and implement fundamental educational reform in large city schools in spite of broad popular support for change? How does the politics of race complicate the challenge of building and sustaining coalitions for improving urban schools? These questions have provoked a great deal of theorizing, but this is the first book to explore the issues on the basis of extensive, solid evidence. Here a group of political scientists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691088977
• ISBN13: 9780691088976
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"