When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools: Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education Format:Paperback Author: Ruth E

Author: Ruth E

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ISBN-13: 9780071713009

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When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools: Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education Format:Paperback Author: Ruth EIn 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