Mayors and Schools

Name: Mayors and Schools
Brand: Temple University Press,U.S.
SKU: 9781592134687
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Minority Voices and Democratic Tensions in Urban Education

Автор: Stefanie Chambers

Език:

Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: Temple University Press,U.S.

Наличност: Външен склад в ограничено количество

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This book examines the national trend toward mayoral control of big-city school districts through co...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Stefanie Chambers

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2006

страници

232

EAN

9781592134687

Enbook ID

05087351

Издател

Temple University Press,U.S.

Теглоt

363

Размери

152 x 209 x 20

Пълно описание

This book examines the national trend toward mayoral control of big-city school districts through comparative case studies of Chicago and Cleveland - two school districts that adopted mayoral control during the 1990s. Chambers takes up the question of whether granting control to mayors in major cities will indeed fix public school systems. She finds that although both cities have experienced noteworthy improvements in student performance since mayoral control, the increased centralization of decision-making has reduced minority participation in democratic politics. Chambers argues that this conundrum of improved performance at the cost of decreased minority participation could undermine the very democratic and civic values that schools try to teach. In a concluding chapter, she offers several suggestions for better incorporating minority participation educational decisions, even while centralizing more power in mayors' offices.

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