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David Rogers, Stern School of Business and New York University, New York.

• Prologue to the Percheron Press EditionIntroduction: The New York City School Struggle1. The Failure of Desegregation: A Brief History2. Demographic and Housing Patterns3. The Neighborhood School Movement4. Civil Rights Organizations5. The White Liberals6. The Moderates7. The Board and Its Top Decision Makers8. The Professional Bureaucracy9. Administrative Controls10. Community Relations11. Decision Making, Administrative Styles, and Crisis Management12. The Board of Education and New York City Government13. Alternative Reform Strategies and Public School SystemsAppendixesBibliographySource NotesIndex

'[A] thorough and important study of the immovable bureaucratic system which is threatening to destroy New York’s children.'(Christian Science Monitor)'Rogers captures the true impotence of those who try to open a system which protects itself by drifting from crisis to crisis.'(New York Magazine)'[A] book without heroes. . . . Even the best and most civic-minded actors in this tragedy are quickly absorbed by the school machine.' (New York Times Book Review)