03175oam 2200685 a 450 991096879980332120200520144314.097984006529299786610706648978128070664612807066439780313050244031305024410.5040/9798400652929(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(DLC)BP9798400652929BC(Perlego)4168432(EXLCZ)99100000000080730120240214e20052024 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrForced to fail the paradox of school desegregation /Stephen J. Caldas and Carl L. Bankston III1st ed.Westport, Conn. :Praeger,2005.London :Bloomsbury Publishing (UK),20241 online resource (266 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780275986933 0275986934 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 hoEducational equalizationUnited StatesSegregation in educationUnited StatesEducational equalizationSegregation in education379.2/63/0973Caldas Stephen J.1957-1796706Bankston Carl L(Carl Leon),1952-1173373DLCDLCDLCBOOK9910968799803321Forced to fail4338623UNINA