Getting What We Ask for: The Ambiguity of Success and Failure in Urban Education

by Charles M. Payne

This text offers a scholarly, in-depth analysis of urban education that provides insights into its current failures while suggesting policies and practices to make it more effective in the future. Payne . . . questions conventional attitudes and approaches to urban education. . . . This well-written text contains extensive footnotes, references, and an index. It compares favorably with quality studies concerned with the problems confronting urban...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313235201
• ISBN13: 9780313235207
• Release Date: November 1984
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"