The Politics of African-American Education: Representation, Partisanship, and Educational Equity
Cambridge University Press, 1/9/2016
EAN 9781107512535, ISBN10: 1107512530
Paperback, 238 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
Based on the 1,800 largest school districts in the United States over a decade, The Politics of African-American Education documents the status of African-American education and the major role that partisanship plays. The book brings together the most comprehensive database on minority education to date that centers around three arguments. First, partisanship permeates African-American education; it affects who is elected to the school board, the racial composition of school administrators and teachers, and the access of African-American students to quality education. Second, African-American representation matters. The effectiveness of African-American representation, however, is enhanced in Democratic districts while representation in Republican districts has little influence. Third, political structures matter, but they are not determinative. Two different structures - election rules and the independent school district - create the rules of the game in US education politics and policy but do not limit others from using those rules to change the outcome.
1. Representation, partisanship and equality in education
2. Two myths
separate but equal and nonpartisan education
3. The politics of African-American school board representation
partisanship, structure and resources
4. Race and the street level bureaucrats
with a little help from my friends
5. Partisanship, teacher representation and access to education opportunities
6. Race, politics and student learning
7. Can you beat the ovarian lottery?