 | Multiethnic Moments: The Politics of Urban Education Reform Subjects: Education Urban -- United States -- Case studies; United States -- Ethnic relations -- Case studies; Educational change -- United States -- Case studies; When courts lifted their school desegregation orders in the 1990s--declaring that black and white students were now "integrated" in America's public schools--it seemed that a window of opportunity would open for Latinos, Asians, and people of other races and ethnicities to influence school reform efforts. However, in most large cities the "multiethnic moment" passed, without leading to greater responsiveness to burgeoning new constituencies. Multiethnic Moments examines school systems in four major U.S. cities--Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, and San Francisco--to uncover the factors that worked for and against ethnically-representative school change. More than a case study, this book is a concentrated effort to come to grips with the multiethnic city as a distinctive setting. It utilizes the politics of education reform to provide theoretically-grounded, empirical scholarship about the broader contemporary politics of race and ethnicity--emphasizing the intersection of interests, ideas, and institutions with the differing political legacies of each of the cities under consideration. Susan E. Clarke is Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder.Rodney E. Hero is Packey J. Dee III Professor of American Democracy, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame.Mara S. Sidney is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University-Newark.Luis R. Fraga is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University.Bari A. Erlichson is a Classroom Teacher in Plainfield, NJ. |
