Author: Anne Elizabeth JustPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The Political Environment of Urban School Boards, 1950 to 1980
Author: Anne Elizabeth JustPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The Political Environment of Urban School Boards
Author: Anne Elizabeth JustElectoral Structure and Urban Policy
Author: J.L. PolinardPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134943628
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
This book examines how electoral structure, representation styles and policy outputs affect the Mexican American community in Texas. In so doing, it makes a major contribution to the larger study of minority politics in the context of urban electoral and political structures.
Urban America Examined
Author: Dale CasperPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351216643
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Originally published in 1985 Urban America Examined, is a comprehensive bibliography examining the urban environment of the United States. The book is split into sections corresponding to the four main geographic regions of the country, looking respectively at research conducted in the East, South, Midwest and West. The book provides a broad cross section of sources, from books to periodicals and covers a range of interdisciplinary issues such as social theory, urbanization, the growth of the city, ethnicity, socialism and US politics.
The Political Economy of Urban Schools
Author: Martin T. KatzmanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674685765
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Ten Thousand Democracies
Author: Michael B. BerkmanPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589010765
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book provides the most extensive examination of democratic control of American public schools. Beginning with a look at educational reforms from the Progressive era in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through the civil rights movement and ending with Pennsylvania's 2004 tax relief measure, Berkman and Plutzer explore what factors determine education spending levels in school districts, including the effects of public opinion, the nature of local political institutions, and the roles played by special interests. The authors show how board members are selected, how well the boards represent minorities, whether the public can bypass the board through referenda, and how the schools are financed. By providing an innovative statistical portrait of the nations' 10,000 school districts, they answer questions central to democtratic control of our schools: how responsive are school boards to their public and when? How powerful are such special interests such as teachers' unions and senior citizens? Among their findings are the correlation of race, age, and home owner status with support for increased funding, that African Americans are more supportive than other races of educational spending, and that senior citizens with longstanding ties to their communities support school budgets. Their statistical method combining public opinion data with Census data is important and innovative, but the hard-core statistics are presented in appendices to make the text accessible to a wider audience.
The Controversy Over Desegregation in the Los Angeles Unified School District, 1962-1981
Author: Donald Glen CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : School integration
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Civic Engagements
Author: Caroline BrettellPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080477529X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This work examines how Indian and Vietnamese immigrants in the Dallas-Arlington-Fort Worth area of Texas learn and practice civic engagement.
A History of Urban Public Schools
Author: Dale E. CasperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Impact of Reorganization on School District Governance and Political Participation in a Centralized, Rural, New York State School District
Author: Kate Steuart WoodwardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Citizens' advisory committees in education
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description