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Direct linkBryk, Anthony S.; Greenberg, Sharon; Bertani, Albert; Sebring, Penny; Tozer, Steven E.; Knowles, Timothy – Harvard Education Press, 2023
"How a City Learned to Improve Its Schools" tells the story of the extraordinary thirty-year school reform effort that changed the landscape of public education in Chicago. Acclaimed educational researcher Anthony S. Bryk joins five coauthors directly involved in Chicago's education reform efforts, Sharon Greenberg, Albert Bertani, Penny…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Urban Schools, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Frederick, Rona M.; View, Jenice L. – Urban Education, 2009
Over 50 years after the monumental decision of "Brown v. Board of Education," many U.S. schools remain separate and unequal. This includes schools in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C. The article discusses how in the two centuries of public education in Washington, D.C., Black educators used a variety of subversive tactics to…
Descriptors: Educational History, Urban Schools, African American Education, African American Teachers
Peer reviewedShircliffe, Barbara J. – Urban Review, 2002
Examines a grassroots African American movement to reestablish a historically black high school closed during desegregation. Analysis of written documents and interviews with former students and community members indicates that establishment of the school was contentious. Highlights the paradox of desegregation for African American communities,…
Descriptors: Activism, Black Education, Community Schools, High Schools
Homel, Michael W. – 1984
The creation of a separate and unequal system of education for blacks and whites in Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s, and black responses to the situation are described and analyzed in this book. Drawing upon material from black newspapers and journals, Chicago Board of Education documents, census data, private manuscript collections, and personal…
Descriptors: Activism, Black Community, Black Education, Black Organizations
