02902nam 22005774a 450 991077842830332120230616235751.01-280-70664-397866107066480-313-05024-4(CKB)1000000000807301(EBL)491395(OCoLC)63823599(SSID)ssj0000296664(PQKBManifestationID)11226157(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000296664(PQKBWorkID)10323230(PQKB)10430213(Au-PeEL)EBL491395(CaPaEBR)ebr10346989(CaONFJC)MIL70664(MiAaPQ)EBC491395(EXLCZ)99100000000080730120050407d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrForced to fail[electronic resource] the paradox of school desegregation /Stephen J. Caldas and Carl L. Bankston IIIWestport, Conn. Praeger20051 online resource (266 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-275-98693-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-247) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 School Desegregation: A Policy in Crisis; Chapter 2 How Did We Get Here?; Chapter 3 The Demographic Transformation of America; Chapter 4 It Takes a ""Certain Kind of"" Village to Raise a Child; Chapter 5 The Political Economy of Education and Equality of Educational Opportunity; Chapter 6 Rational Self-interest versus Irrational Government Policy; Chapter 7 School Desegregation and the Racial Achievement Gap; Chapter 8 A New Perspective on Race and Schooling: Attaining the Dream; Notes; IndexCaldas and Bankston provide a critical, dispassionate analysis of why desegregation in the United States has failed to achieve the goal of providing equal educational opportunities for all students. They offer case histories through dozens of examples of failed desegregation plans from all over the country. The book takes a very broad perspective on race and education, situated in the larger context of the development of individual rights in Western civiliztion.||The book traces the long legal history of first racial segregation, and then racial desegregation in America. The authors explain hoSegregation in educationUnited StatesEducational equalizationUnited StatesSegregation in educationEducational equalization379.2/63/0973Caldas Stephen J.1957-1479156Bankston Carl L(Carl Leon),1952-1173373MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778428303321Forced to fail3816537UNINA