In the crossfire: Marcus Foster and the troubled history of American school reform

Schooling as social reform: racial uplift, liberalism, and the making of a black educator

Combating cultural deprivation: urban educators and the war on poverty

Victims, not hoodlums: urban schools and the crisis of liberalism

Black power, "people power": holding schools accountable for black achievement

Beyond community control: accountability and achievement in the Oakland public schools

Epilogue: legacies of the 1960s in American school reform.