High Stakes Education : Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform

Acknowledgments vii Series Editor's Preface ix Globalization, Economic Restructuring, and Urban Education 1(22) Chicago School Reform and Its Political, Economic, and Cultural Context 23(18) Accountability, Social Differentiation, and Racialized Social Control 41(30) ``Like a Hammer Just Knocking Them Down'' Regulating African American Schools 71(34) The Policies and Politics of Cultural Assimilation Coauthored with Eric Gutstein 105(34) ``It's Us versus the Board---The Enemy'' Race, Class, and the Power to Oppose 139(30) Beyond Accountability Toward Schools that Create New People for a New Way of Life 169(24) Methodological Appendix 193(4) Notes 197(6) References 203(12) Index 215