Now published by Teachers College Press, this classic text includes a new Introduction by Jeffrey Mirel as well as new photographs and references that bring the book up to date. Power and the Promise of School Reform remains the foremost volume to examine how grass-roots movements operated during the early twentieth century to shape urban education in the United States.Carefully researched and elegantly written, this volume moves effortlessly from impassioned Socialist party meetings to smoky union halls, from fervent gatherings of urban radicals to quiet teas with upper-class women reformers. Reese explores the ways in which these diverse community groups struggled to make local schools responsive institutions in a time of dramatic change.
- ISBN10 0710207670
- ISBN13 9780710207678
- Publish Date 17 April 1986
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 October 2009
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint Law Book Co of Australasia
- Format Paperback
- Pages 342
- Language English