Not Paved for Us chronicles a fifty-year period in Philadelphia
education, and offers a critical look at how school reform efforts
do and do not transform outcomes for Black students and educators.
This illuminating book offers an extensive, expert analysis of a
school system that bears the legacy, hallmarks, and consequences
that lie at the intersection of race and education. Urban education
scholar Camika Royal deftly analyzes decades of efforts aimed at
improving school performance within the School District of
Philadelphia (SDP), in a brisk survey spanning every SDP
superintendency from the 1960s through 2017. Royal interrogates the
history of education and educational reforms, recounting city,
state, and federal interventions. She covers SDP's connections with
the Common School Movement and the advent of the Philadelphia
Freedom Schools, and she addresses federal policy shifts, from
school desegregation to the No Child Left Behind and Every Student
Succeeds Acts. Her survey provides sociopolitical context and rich
groundwork for a nuanced examination of why many large urban
districts struggle to implement reforms with fidelity and in ways
that advance Black students academically and holistically. In a
bracing critique, Royal bears witness to the ways in which positive
public school reform has been obstructed: through racism and racial
capitalism, but also via liberal ideals, neoliberal practices, and
austerity tactics. Royal shows how, despite the well-intended
actions of larger entities, the weight of school reform, here as in
other large urban districts, has been borne by educators striving
to meet the extensive needs of their students, families, and
communities with only the slightest material, financial, and human
resources. She draws on the experiences of Black educators and
community members and documents their contributions. Not Paved for
Us highlights the experiences of Black educators as they navigate
the racial and cultural politics of urban school reform.
Ultimately, Royal names, dissects, and challenges the presence of
racism in school reform policies and practices while calling for an
antiracist future.
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