Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. CHAPTER 1. Schooling as Social Reform: Racial Uplift, Liberalism, and the Making of a Black Educator 19
5. CHAPTER 2. Combating Cultural Deprivation: Urban Educators and the War on Poverty 53
6. CHAPTER 3. Victims, Not Hoodlums: Urban Schools and the Crisis of Liberalism 94
7. CHAPTER 4. Black Power, “People Power”: Holding Schools Accountable for Black Achievement 135
8. CHAPTER 4. Black Power, “People Power”: Holding Schools Accountable for Black Achievement 185
9. EPILOGUE. Legacies of the 1960s in American School Reform 227
10. Notes 245
11. Index 293
12. Acknowledgments 301