Home: Seminars in Urban Politics (POLSC 260): Politics and Urban Education

Should City Mayors Run the Schools?

School Politics, Chicago Style (1976)
Peterson, Paul Elliott
University of Chicago Press
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Call Number: LB2842.2 .P44 1976
The Chicago Context: Understanding the Consequences of Urban Processes on School Capacity
Raquel L. Farmer-Hinton
The Journal of Negro Education , Vol. 71, No. 4 (Autumn, 2002), pp. 313-330

Chicago School Reform Timeline
The Chicago School Reform Act of 1988 (P.L. 85-1418)
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The background of this law can be found in this article:

Kenneth K. Wong andPushpam Jain
Newspapers as Policy Actors in Urban School Systems: The Chicago Story
Urban Affairs Review November 1999 35: 210-246, doi:10.1177/10780879922184365

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No Child Left Behind
Illinois School Reform Resource Locator
Annenberg Institute for School Reform
The Chicago School Reforms: Are They Working?
William Rau, Paul J. Baker and Dianne Ashby
The Sociological Quarterly , Vol. 40, No. 4 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 641-661
So Much Reform, So Little Change: Building-Level Obstacles to Urban School Reform.
Payne, C., & Kaba, M. (2007). Social Policy, 37(3/4), 30-37.

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