TY  - BOOK
AU  - Posey-Maddox,Linn
TI  - When middle-class parents choose urban schools: class, race, and the challenge of equity in public education 
SN  - 9780226120355
AV  - LC5131 .W446 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Urban schools
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Middle class
KW  - Education
KW  - Public schools
KW  - Parent participation
KW  - School management and organization
KW  - Community and school
KW  - Discrimination in education
KW  - Segregation in education
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; List of Illustrations and Tables; Acknowledgments; One; Middle-Class Parents and City School Transformation; Two; Reconceptualizing the "Urban": Examining Race, Class, and Demographic Change in Cities and Their Public Schools; Three; Building a "Critical Mass": Neighborhood Parent Group Action for School Change; Four; The (Re)Making of a Good Public School: Parent and Teacher Views of a Changing School Community; Five; Professionalizing the MPTO: Race, Class, and Shifting Norms for "Active" Parents; Six; Morningside Revisited; Seven; Maintaining a "Commitment to Everyone": Toward a Vision of Equitable Development in Urban Public SchoolingAppendix A; Social Class Categories; Appendix B; Methodological Approach; Notes; References; Index; 2; b
N2  - 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 d
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