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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Civic Capacity, Race, and Education in Black-Led Cities | |
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| The Challenge of Urban Education | |
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| Reforms That Go Nowhere | |
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| Civic Capacity: Organizing Communities to Get Things Done | |
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| A Tough Task: Why Human Development May Be More Difficult than Economic Development | |
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| Competing Views of Race and School Politics | |
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| Research Design | |
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| The Plan of the Book | |
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| Racial Change and the Politics of Transition | |
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| Patterns of Racial Turnover in Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, and D.C. | |
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| Racial Transition and Political Change: The Rise of Black Political Power | |
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| Managing School Desegregation | |
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| Political Compromise and Transition: The Evolution of Black-led School Districts | |
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| The Political Landscape in Black-Led Cities: From Formal to Informal Power | |
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| Conclusion: Historical Legacies and Racial Politics | |
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| The Elusiveness of Education Reform | |
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| The Condition of Education: Poor Performance and Even Poorer Conditions | |
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| Local Problem Definitions: A Favorable Foundation for Reform | |
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| An Array of Reform Efforts | |
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| The Frustration of Reform | |
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| Why Is Reform So Difficult? | |
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| Race and the Political Economy of Big-City Schools: Teachers and Preachers | |
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| Race, jobs, and Politics | |
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| Unions and Reform | |
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| Black Ministers and School Affairs: 1960-1980 | |
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| Reform with Teachers and jobs in Mind | |
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| Parental and Community Participation in Education Reform | |
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| What Kind of Participation and on Whose Terms? | |
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| Patterns of Participation in Black-Led Cities | |
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| The Dog That Hasn't Barked: Accounting for the Absence of a Stronger Community-Based Movement | |
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| Fizzled Expectations | |
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| Black Leaders, White Businesses: Racial Tensions and the Construction of Public-Private Partnerships in Education | |
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| Business-School Partnerships: The Rallying Cry | |
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| Some Cautionary Notes | |
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| Business and School Reform in Black-Led Cities | |
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| Race As an Inhibiting Factor to Business Involvement | |
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| Partnerships and Racial Politics in Black-Led Cities | |
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| The Role of External Actors | |
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| Traditional Roles of External Actors | |
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| Growing Regulatory Assertiveness of External Actors | |
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| The Changing Role of the Courts | |
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| Current Issues and Interventions | |
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| Variations in State Policy | |
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| Local Capacity and External Actors | |
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| School Reform As If Politics and Race Matter | |
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| Race As a Complicating Factor in the Politics of School Reform | |
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| Education Policy As If Politics and Race Matter | |
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| Prospects for a Human Capital Regime | |
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| Index | |