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Neckerman, Kathryn M. – American Journal of Education, 2000
Examines two books, "The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education" and "Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore," both of which apply urban regime theory to a new policy arena, reconsider the role of business in local school politics, bring politics into…
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Politics of Education
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Fowler, Frances C. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1999
The new "Handbook" assumes that society is changing rapidly and educational administration must change with it. This article critiques chapters on four concepts: ideology, the new consumerism, social capital, and the new institutionalism. Consumerism is pure 19th-century liberalism/individualism; social capital theory and…
Descriptors: Conservatism, Cultural Pluralism, Economic Factors, Educational Administration