When middle-class parents choose urban schools : class, race, and the challenge of equity in public education / Linn Posey-Maddox.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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