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Race, Class, and Power in School Restructuringreviewed by Alan Singer - 2001 Title: Race, Class, and Power in School Restructuring Author(s): Pauline Lipman Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany ISBN: 0791437701, Pages: 334, Year: 1998 Search for book at Amazon.com This book is thoughtful, provocative and
makes significant contributions to the literature about school
restructuring and the dialogue about race in the United States. I
have worked as a teacher in inner-city high schools and as a
consultant with school reorganization teams. I found that Pauline
Lipman’s research resonated with my own experiences. Her
study effectively demonstrates why, despite claims by its
advocates, school restructuring is limited in its ability to end
racial and class stratification in United States public
schools.
The focus of the book is the restructuring experience of
teachers in a small southern city that the author calls Riverton.
Lipman examines the way that the process of restructuring, power
relationships in the community, and teachers’ belief about
African American students combine to undermine an explicit goal of
the restructuring process, "reducing racial disparities in
(student) achievement and discipline actions and addressing the
needs of ‘at-risk’ students (p. 62)." Lipman concludes
that the "top-down" nature of a supposedly "bottom-up" process,
differing interpretations of student needs and school... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Alan Singer
Hofstra University E-mail Author Alan J. Singer is an associate professor in curriculum and teaching at Hofstra University. Publications include the book Social Studies for Secondary Schools: Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach (New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates, 1997).
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