Posey-Maddox Linn Posey-Maddox

When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools (eBook, ePUB)

Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to-and often end up becoming active in-urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn Posey-Maddox shows in this study, it can also introduce new class and race tensions, and even exacerbate inequalities. Sensitively navigating the pros and cons of middle-class transformation, When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools asks whether it is possible for our urban public schools to have both financial security and equitable diversity. Drawing on in-depth research at an urban elementary school, Posey-Maddox examines parents efforts to support the school through their outreach, marketing, and volunteerism. She shows that when middle-class parents engage in urban school communities, they can bring a host of positive benefits, including new educational opportunities and greater diversity. But their involvement can also unintentionally marginalize less-affluent parents and diminish low-income students access to the improving schools. In response, Posey-Maddox argues that school reform efforts, which usually equate improvement with rising test scores and increased enrollment, need to have more equity-focused policies in place to ensure that low-income families also benefit from and participate in school change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780226120355
• Artikelnr.: 42505225

Autorenporträt

Linn Posey-Maddox is assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.