Black Mayors And School Politics

Download Black Mayors And School Politics full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Black Mayors And School Politics ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Black Mayors and School Politics

Author : Wilbur C Rich
Publisher : Garland Science
ISBN 13 : 1000525953
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Black Mayors and School Politics by : Wilbur C Rich

Download or read book Black Mayors and School Politics written by Wilbur C Rich and published by Garland Science. This book was released on 2021-12-12 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Some people believe that if inner-city black children had excellent schools, they would perform better in them. Granted, schools are a part of the problem, but they are not all of the solution. Schools are only buildings where teachers, administrators, and students interact. Learning is a more much complex process. There are many forces arrayed against an inner-city child that preclude him/her from mastering the education process. Among these forces are poverty, family instability, disruptive classroom environments, and incompetent teachers. There seems to be no end to research and speculation about how to overcome these forces. However, the author asserts that the gap between black and white children continues to widen. With research beginning in 1989, exploring three school systems for this study: Detroit, Michigan; Gary, Indiana; and Newark, New Jersey. The book presents a systematic survey of school politics in these three cities, giving particular emphasis to local reform efforts.

Double Trouble

Author : J. Phillip Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195177339
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Double Trouble by : J. Phillip Thompson

Download or read book Double Trouble written by J. Phillip Thompson and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "J. Phillip Thompson III, an insider in the Dinkins administration, provides the first in-depth look at how the black mayors of America's major cities achieve social change. This unique work opens a window on the oft-shuttered inner dynamics of black politics. In his highly original treatment of the last thirty years in post-civil rights progressive social change, Thompson offers a powerful argument that the best way to broaden democracy in to practice it internally."--BOOK JACKET.

Black Mayors, White Majorities

Author : Ravi K. Perry
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496203577
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Black Mayors, White Majorities by : Ravi K. Perry

Download or read book Black Mayors, White Majorities written by Ravi K. Perry and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen an increase in the number of African Americans elected to political office in cities where the majority of their constituents are not black. In the past, the leadership of black politicians was characterized as either "deracialized" or "racialized"--that is, as either focusing on politics that transcend race or as making black issues central to their agenda. Today many African American politicians elected to offices in non-majority-black cities are adopting a strategy that universalizes black interests as intrinsically relevant to the needs of their entire constituency. In Black Mayors, White Majorities Ravi K. Perry explores the conditions in which black mayors of majority-white cities are able to represent black interests and whether blacks' historically high expectations for black mayors are being realized. Perry uses Toledo and Dayton, Ohio, as case studies, and his analysis draws on interviews with mayors and other city officials, business leaders, and heads of civic organizations, in addition to official city and campaign documents and newspapers. Perry also analyzes mayoral speeches, the 2001 ward-level election results, and city demographics. Black Mayors, White Majorities encourages readers to think beyond the black-white dyad and instead to envision policies that can serve constituencies with the greatest needs as well as the general public.

African-American Mayors

Author : David R. Colburn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252026348
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (263 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis African-American Mayors by : David R. Colburn

Download or read book African-American Mayors written by David R. Colburn and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 7, 1967, the voters of Cleveland, Ohio, and Gary, Indiana, elected the nation's first African-American mayors to govern their cities. Ten years later more than two hundred black mayors held office, and by 1993 sixty-seven major urban centers, most with majority-white populations, were headed by African Americans.Once in office, African-American mayors faced vexing challenges. In large and small cities from the Sunbelt to the Rustbelt, black mayors assumed office during economic downturns and confronted the intractable problems of decaying inner cities, white flight, a dwindling tax base, violent crime, and diminishing federal support for social programs. Many encountered hostility from their own parties, city councils, and police departments; others worked against long-established power structures dominated by local business owners or politicians. Still others, while trying to respond to multiple demands from a diverse constituency, were viewed as traitors by blacks expecting special attention from a leader of their own race. All struggled with the contradictory mandate of meeting the increasing needs of poor inner-city residents while keeping white businesses from fleeing to the suburbs.This is the first comprehensive treatment of the complex phenomenon of African-American mayors in the nation's major urban centers. Offering a diverse portrait of leadership, conflict, and almost insurmountable obstacles, this volume assesses the political alliances that brought black mayors to office as well as their accomplishments--notably, increased minority hiring and funding for minority businesses--and the challenges that marked their careers. Mayors profiled include Carl B. Stokes (Cleveland), Richard G. Hatcher (Gary), "Dutch" Morial (New Orleans), Harold Washington (Chicago), Tom Bradley (Los Angeles), Marion Barry (Washington, D.C.), David Dinkins (New York City), Coleman Young (Detroit), and a succession of black mayors in Atlanta (Maynard Jackson, Andrew Young, and Bill Campbell).Probing the elusive economic dimension of black power, African-American Mayors demonstrates how the same circumstances that set the stage for the victories of black mayors exaggerated the obstacles they faced.

Mayors in the Middle

Author : Jeffrey R. Henig
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691222576
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mayors in the Middle by : Jeffrey R. Henig

Download or read book Mayors in the Middle written by Jeffrey R. Henig and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desperate to jump-start the reform process in America's urban schools, politicians, scholars, and school advocates are looking increasingly to mayors for leadership. But does a stronger mayoral role represent bold institutional change with real potential to improve big-city schools, or just the latest in the copycat world of school reform du jour? Is it democratic? Why have efforts to put mayors in charge so often generated resistance along racial dividing lines? Public debate and scholarly analysis have shied away from confronting such issues head-on. Mayors in the Middle brings together, for students of education policy and urban politics as well as scholars and school advocates, the most thoughtful and original analyses of the promise and limitations of mayoral takeovers of schools. Reflecting on the experience of six cities--Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and Washington, D.C.--ten of the nation's leading experts on education politics tackle the question of whether putting mayors in charge is a step in the right direction. Through the case studies and the wide-ranging essays that follow and build upon them, the contributors--Stefanie Chambers, Jeffrey R. Henig, Kenneth J. Meier, Jeffrey Mirel, Marion Orr, John Portz, Wilbur C. Rich, Dorothy Shipps, and Clarence N. Stone--begin the process of answering questions critical to the future of inner-city children, the prospects for urban revitalization, and the shape of American education in the years to come.

Electing Black Mayors ; Political Action in the Black Community

Author : William E. Nelson
Publisher : Columbus : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Electing Black Mayors ; Political Action in the Black Community by : William E. Nelson

Download or read book Electing Black Mayors ; Political Action in the Black Community written by William E. Nelson and published by Columbus : Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Profiles of Black Mayors in America

Author : Joint Center for Political Studies (U.S.)
Publisher : Center
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Profiles of Black Mayors in America by : Joint Center for Political Studies (U.S.)

Download or read book Profiles of Black Mayors in America written by Joint Center for Political Studies (U.S.) and published by Center. This book was released on 1977 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rhetoric of Black Mayors

Author : Deborah F. Atwater
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761850767
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Rhetoric of Black Mayors by : Deborah F. Atwater

Download or read book The Rhetoric of Black Mayors written by Deborah F. Atwater and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores rhetorical and practical efforts of Black mayors in building coalitions to win elections and govern cities. Atwater discusses and analyzes the process of creating coalitions by each mayor by dealing with the news coverage of the mayors by both the black and mainstream press and including interviews.

Coleman Young and Detroit Politics

Author : Wilbur C. Rich
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814320945
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Coleman Young and Detroit Politics by : Wilbur C. Rich

Download or read book Coleman Young and Detroit Politics written by Wilbur C. Rich and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coleman Young was elected Detroit's first black mayor in 1973, and was the city's longest-serving chief executive. This volume combines biography with political analysis to outline the basic strategy underlying Young's approach to policy making, and trace the economic changes in the city.

Race, Performance, and Approval of Mayors

Author : S. Howell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230603327
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Race, Performance, and Approval of Mayors by : S. Howell

Download or read book Race, Performance, and Approval of Mayors written by S. Howell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-02-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book is a study of why people approve and disapprove of the mayor in four cities with long histories of racial conflict: New Orleans, Detroit, Chicago and Charlotte NC. It examines the relative influence of race, racial factors, racial environment, and perceptions of the quality of life in determining mayoral approval.

Mayors and Schools

Author : Stefanie Chambers
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592134694
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mayors and Schools by : Stefanie Chambers

Download or read book Mayors and Schools written by Stefanie Chambers and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Black Mayors and the Politics of Racial Economic Advancement

Author : Peter K. Eisinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Black Mayors and the Politics of Racial Economic Advancement by : Peter K. Eisinger

Download or read book Black Mayors and the Politics of Racial Economic Advancement written by Peter K. Eisinger and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power

Author : Leonard N. Moore
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252071638
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (716 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power by : Leonard N. Moore

Download or read book Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power written by Leonard N. Moore and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first elected black mayor of a major U.S. city, Cleveland's Carl B. Stokes embodied the transformation of the civil rights movement from a vehicle of protest to one of black political power. In this wide-ranging political biography, Leonard N. Moore examines the convictions and alliances that brought Stokes to power. Impelled by the problems plaguing Cleveland's ghettos in the decades following World War II, Stokes and other Clevelanders questioned how the sit-ins and marches of the civil rights movement could correct the exclusionary zoning practices, police brutality, substandard housing, and de facto school segregation that African Americans in the country's northern urban centers viewed as evidence of their oppression. As civil unrest in the country's ghettos turned to violence in the 1960s, Cleveland was one of the first cities to heed the call of Malcolm X's infamous "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech. Understanding the importance of controlling the city's political system, Cleveland's blacks utilized their substantial voting base to put Stokes in office in 1967. Stokes was committed to showing the country that an African American could be an effective political leader. He employed an ambitious and radically progressive agenda to clean up Cleveland's ghettos, reform law enforcement, move public housing to middle-class neighborhoods, and jump-start black economic power. Hindered by resistance from the black middle class and the Cleveland City Council, spurned by the media and fellow politicians who deemed him a black nationalist, and unable to prove that black leadership could thwart black unrest, Stokes finished his four years in office with many of his legislative goals unfulfilled. Focusing on Stokes and Cleveland, but attending to themes that affected many urban centers after the second great migration of African Americans to the North, Moore balances Stokes's failures and successes to provide a thorough and engaging portrait of his life and his pioneering contributions to a distinct African American political culture that continues to shape American life.

A Political Education

Author : Elizabeth Todd-Breland
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469646595
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Political Education by : Elizabeth Todd-Breland

Download or read book A Political Education written by Elizabeth Todd-Breland and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012, Chicago's school year began with the city's first teachers' strike in a quarter century and ended with the largest mass closure of public schools in U.S. history. On one side, a union leader and veteran black woman educator drew upon organizing strategies from black and Latinx communities to demand increased school resources. On the other side, the mayor, backed by the Obama administration, argued that only corporate-style education reform could set the struggling school system aright. The stark differences in positions resonated nationally, challenging the long-standing alliance between teachers' unions and the Democratic Party. Elizabeth Todd-Breland recovers the hidden history underlying this battle. She tells the story of black education reformers' community-based strategies to improve education beginning during the 1960s, as support for desegregation transformed into community control, experimental schooling models that pre-dated charter schools, and black teachers' challenges to a newly assertive teachers' union. This book reveals how these strategies collided with the burgeoning neoliberal educational apparatus during the late twentieth century, laying bare ruptures and enduring tensions between the politics of black achievement, urban inequality, and U.S. democracy.

The Education Mayor

Author : Kenneth K. Wong
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589014367
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (143 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Education Mayor by : Kenneth K. Wong

Download or read book The Education Mayor written by Kenneth K. Wong and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2002 the No Child Left Behind Act rocked America's schools with new initiatives for results-based accountability. But years before NCLB was signed, a new movement was already under way by mayors to take control of city schools from school boards and integrate the management of public education with the overall governing of the city. The Education Mayor is a critical look at mayoral control of urban school districts, beginning with Boston's schools in 1992 and examining more than 100 school districts in 40 states. The authors seek to answer four central questions: • What does school governance look like under mayoral leadership? • How does mayoral control affect school and student performance? • What are the key factors for success or failure of integrated governance? • How does mayoral control effect practical changes in schools and classrooms? The results of their examination indicate that, although mayoral control of schools may not be appropriate for every district, it can successfully emphasize accountability across the education system, providing more leverage for each school district to strengthen its educational infrastructure and improve student performance. Based on extensive quantitative data as well as case studies, this analytical study provides a balanced look at America's education reform. As the first multidistrict empirical examination and most comprehensive overall evaluation of mayoral school reform, The Education Mayor is a must-read for academics, policymakers, educational administrators, and civic and political leaders concerned about public education.

When Mayors Take Charge

Author : Joseph P. Viteritti
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815701942
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis When Mayors Take Charge by : Joseph P. Viteritti

Download or read book When Mayors Take Charge written by Joseph P. Viteritti and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large urban school systems have been the weakest link in American education, driving middle-class families into the suburbs while contributing mightily to the racial learning gap. Activist mayors in several major cities have responded by taking control of their public schools. When Mayors Take Charge is the most up-to-date assessment available on this phenomenon. It brings together the topic's leading experts to analyze the factors and people driving the trend, its achievements and shortcomings, its prospects for the future, and ways to improve it. Part One of the book assesses the results of mayoral control nationwide. The second section details the experience in three key cities: Boston and Chicago, the major prototypes for mayoral control, and Detroit, where mayoral control ended in disaster. The final section provides the first in-depth examination of New York City, where the law installing mayoral control sunsets in 2009. Viteritti's opening essay and postscript frame the analysis to shed light on the significance and limitations of governance reform. Contributors include Clara Hemphill (formerly NewYork Newsday), Jeffrey R. Henig (Columbia University), Michael Kirst (Stanford University), John Portz (Northeastern University), Diane Ravitch (NYU),Wilbur C. Rich (Wellesley College), Robert Schwartz (Harvard University), Dorothy Shipps (Baruch College), and Kenneth K.Wong (Brown University).

Black Representation and Urban Policy

Author : Albert Karnig
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226425344
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (253 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Black Representation and Urban Policy by : Albert Karnig

Download or read book Black Representation and Urban Policy written by Albert Karnig and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1980-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed a dramatic growth in the number of black elected officials. Although blacks still constitute barely 1 percent of elected officeholders in the nation, their increasing political power cannot be denied. In Black Representation and Urban Policy, Albert K. Karnig and Susan Welch focus on the election of blacks to mayoral and city council seats, using the most current data available on more than 250 cities. They address two major questions: What conditions promote blacks' chances of winning election to public office? Does the election of blacks to municipal office have an effect on urban policy? In exploring the factors that underlie the election of blacks to public office, the authors found that the resources of the black community itself—the size as well as the education and income of the black population—are the best predictors of blacks' winning political office. The authors' assessment of the impact of black elected officials on urban policy constitutes perhaps their most profoundly important finding. Cities with black mayors have had greater increases in social welfare expenditures than have similar communities without black mayors. The authors point out that election of blacks to mayoral posts, then, can have more than symbolic consequences for public policy.