In the crossfire : Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform /

In the crossfire : Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform / John P. Spencer.

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As a teacher, principal, and superintendent-- first in his native Philadelphia and eventually in Oakland, California-- Foster made success stories of urban schools and children whom others had dismissed as hopeless, only to be assassinated in 1973 by the previously unknown Symbionese Liberation Army...

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Main Author: Spencer, John Palmer
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Politics and culture in modern America.
Subjects:
Foster, Marcus A., > 1923-1973.
African Americans > Education.
Educational change > United States.
African American school principals > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
African American school superintendents > California > Oakland.
Urban schools > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Urban schools > California > Oakland.
African American school principals.
African American school superintendents.
Educational change.
Urban schools.
California > Oakland.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
United States.

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