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When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools: Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education
Linn Posey-Maddox
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Hardcover. Over the years a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to - and often end up becoming active in - urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools. The author shows that it can also introduce new class and race tensions, and even exacerbate inequalities. Num Pages: 232 pages, 2 line drawings, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JFSG; JNKP; JNLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to - and often end up becoming active in - urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn Posey-Maddox shows in this study, it can also introduce new class and race tensions, and even exacerbate inequalities. Sensitively navigating the pros and cons of middle-class transformation, When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools asks whether it is possible for our urban public schools to have both financial security and equitable diversity. Drawing on in-depth research at an urban elementary school, ... Read more
In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to - and often end up becoming active in - urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn Posey-Maddox shows in this study, it can also introduce new class and race tensions, and even exacerbate inequalities. Sensitively navigating the pros and cons of middle-class transformation, When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools asks whether it is possible for our urban public schools to have both financial security and equitable diversity. Drawing on in-depth research at an urban elementary school, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226120188
SKU
V9780226120188
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99-15
About Linn Posey-Maddox
Linn Posey-Maddox is assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Reviews for When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools: Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education
"Posey-Maddox's book makes an original contribution that is important to current conversations about urban schools. The question of what role middle-class families can/should play in urban school reform is a pressing one, and her research raises a series of questions that I have not seen raised elsewhere as clearly or directly. It captures key dimensions of how cities are changing ... Read more