Educational reform is one of the most critical issues facing our
cities, but some cities are better at it than others. To explain
why, this book relates education to politics, showing how the
"whole village" can be mobilized to better educate tomorrow's
citizens.
City Schools and City Politics is based on an eleven-city NSF
study of civic capacity and urban education. As participants in
that study, the authors conducted research in three rustbelt cities
that have lost much of their tax base and have legacies of machine
politics. They analyzed the ways in which government, business, and
community leaders create, or fail to create, civic support for
public education, focusing on why certain cities show greater
initiative than others in addressing these problems.
The authors reveal that, of the cities examined. Pittsburgh has
made the most strides in educational reform, followed by Boston.
while St. Louis has consistently lagged behind Their observations
show that cross-sectorial coalitions are essential for bringing
about change; that organizational arrangements in the business
community and their relationship to local government affect whether
there is the capacity to address school reform; that leadership is
critical in bringing about change: and that municipal institutions
and culture influence a city's ability to take action.
Packed with empirical data and analysis. City Schools and City
Politics demonstrates the citywide and long-term character of
successful efforts to reform public schools, relating education to
the priorities of municipal governments and describing the
conditions under which reform becomes possible. It extends regime
theory to public education and shows thateducation policy is
inextricably linked with urban political life and is an issue of
real concern to political science.
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