City Schools and City Politics: Institutions and Leadership in Pittsburgh, Boston, and St. Louis

by Portz, John; Stein, Lana; Jones, Robin R.

• ISBN13: 9780700609802
• ISBN10: 0700609806
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas

Summary

Educational reform is one of the most critical issues facing our cities, but some cities are better at it than others. To explain why, this book relates education to politics, showing how the "whole village" can be mobilized to better educate tomorrow's citizens. Book jacket.

Author Biography

John Portz is an associate professor of political science at Northeastern University Lana Stein is associate professor of political science at the University of Missouri, St. Louis Robin R. Jones is coordinator of Community Initiative for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Florida.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Cities, Schools, and Civic Capacity	1	(20)
Building Civic Capacity: Institutions and Leadership	21	(18)
The Setting: Pittsburgh, Boston, and St. Louis	39	(17)
Pittsburgh's Public Schools: A Fragile Balance of Leadership and Institution Building	56	(26)
Boston's Public Schools: Emerging Institutions and Leadership	82	(24)
St. Louis's Public Schools: Weak Sectors and Low Cohesion	106	(27)
Civic Capacity and Urban Education: Lessons from Three Cities	133	(38)
Appendixes
Research Design and Interview Schedule	163	(1)
Programmatic Effort in Support of Educational Innovation	164	(7)
Notes	171	(22)
Index	193