Detroit School Reform in Comparative Contexts Community Action Overcoming Policy Barriers /

• Main Authors: St. John, Edward (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Girmay, Feven (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Neighborhoods, Communities, and Urban Marginality
• Subjects: Sociology, Urban.; Education and state.; Educational sociology .; Education and sociology.; Urban economics.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Education Policy.; Sociology of Education.; Urban Economics.

This book critically examines how the narrative of global economic competition was used to rationalize college preparatory curriculum for all high school students and promote charter schools in Detroit. Using mixed qualitative and quantitative methods, the study identifies neighborhood risk factors...