When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools
Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education
- Contents
- Review Quotes

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments
One / Middle-Class Parents and City School Transformation
Two / Reconceptualizing the “Urban”: Examining Race, Class, and Demographic Change in Cities and Their Public Schools
Three / Building a “Critical Mass”: Neighborhood Parent Group Action for School Change
Four / The (Re)Making of a “Good” Public School: Parent and Teacher Views of a Changing School Community
Five / Professionalizing the MPTO: Race, Class, and Shifting Norms for “Active” Parents
Six / Morningside Revisited
Seven / Maintaining a “Commitment to Everyone”: Toward a Vision of Equitable Development in Urban Public Schooling
Appendix A / Social Class Categories
Appendix B / Methodological Approach
Notes
References
Index
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