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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465844603321

Autore

Street Paul Louis.

Titolo

Segregated schools : educational apartheid in post-civil rights America / / Paul Street

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

0-203-35010-3

1-299-28747-6

1-136-08058-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Collana

Positions : education, politics, and culture

Disciplina

379.2/63/0973

Soggetti

Segregation in education - United States

Educational equalization - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; SEGREGATED SCHOOLS; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; SERIES EDITORS' INTRODUCTION; Introduction: No Birthday Bash for Brown; 1 Still and Increasingly Separate; 2 Still Savage School Inequalities; 3 Separate But Adequate; 4 The Deeper Inequality; 5 Why Separatism Matters; NOTES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Fifty years after the US Supreme Court ruled that ""separate but equal"" was ""inherently unequal,"" Paul Street argues that little progress has been made to meaningful reform America's schools. In fact, Street considers the racial make-up of today's schools as a state of de facto  apartheid. With an eye to historical development of segregated education, Street examines the current state of school funding and investigates disparities in teacher quality, teacher stability, curriculum, classroom supplies, faculties, student-teacher ratios, teacher'  expectations for students  and students' expec