Lessons from the heartland [[electronic resource] ] : a turbulent half-century of public education in an iconic American city / / Barbara Miner

• Autore: Miner Barbara
• Pubblicazione: New York, : New Press, The, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.977595; 371.010977595
• Soggetto topico: Public schools - Wisconsin - Milwaukee - History; Education and state - Wisconsin - Milwaukee - History
• Classificazione: HIS054000
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Milwaukee, Public Schools, and the Fight For America's Future; PART I: Segregation, Prosperity, and Protests: 1950s and 1960s; 1. THE GLORY DAYS OF 1957; 2. THE 1950S: MILWAUKEE'S BLACK COMMUNITY COMES OF AGE; 3. 1964: FREEDOM SCHOOLS COME TO MILWAUKEE; 4. MILWAUKEE LOVES GEORGE WALLACE; 5. MILWAUKEE'S GREAT MIGRATION #1: BLACKS MOVE FROM THE SOUTH TO THE INNER CORE; 6. 1965: DIRECT ACTION TARGETS "INTACT BUSING"; 7. 1967-68: OPEN HOUSING MOVES TO CENTER STAGE ; PART II: Desegregation, Deindustrialization, and Backlash: 1970s and 1980s8. BROWN AND MILLIKEN : THE U.S. SUPREME COURT ADVANCES AND RETREATS; 9. JANUARY 19, 1976: THE COURT RULES- MILWAUKEE'S SCHOOLS ARE SEGREGATED; 10. SEPTEMBER 7, 1976: THE BUSES ROLL AND DESEGREGATION BEGINS; 11. 1981: POLICE BRUTALITY MOVES TO CENTER STAGE; 12. MILWAUKEE'S GREAT MIGRATION #2: WHITES MOVE TO THE SUBURBS; 13. THE 1980S: THE RUST BELT AND REAGANOMICS; 14. DESEGREGATION: FORWARD AND BACKWARD IN THE 1980S; 15. LATINO STUDENTS: MOVING BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE; 16. MONEY: THE ROOT OF ALL SOLUTIONS ; PART III: Resegregation, Abandonment, and a New Era of Protest: 1990s and 2000s17. 1990: VOUCHERS PASS, ABANDONMENT BEGINS; 18. VOUCHER CROSSFIRE: FIGHTING FOR THE SOUL OF PUBLIC EDUCATION; 19. MULTICULTURAL CROSSFIRE: REDEFINING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CURRICULUM; 20. 1993-95: WHITE VOTERS REJECT NEW SCHOOLS FOR BLACK CHILDREN, AND THINGS FALL APART; 21. 1995: VOUCHERS FOR RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS, ABANDONMENT ADVANCES; 22. 1999: (RE)SEGREGATION DÉJÀ VU- NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS AND OPEN ENROLLMENT; 23. MILWAUKEE'S GREAT MIGRATION #3: GLOBAL IMMIGRANTS MAKE MILWAUKEE THEIR HOME ; 24. 2002-10: NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND. REALLY?25. 2011: THE HEARTLAND RISES UP, AND A NEW ERA OF PROTEST BEGINS; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In a magisterial work of narrative nonfiction that weaves together the racially fraught history of public education in Milwaukee and the broader story of hypersegregation in the rust belt, Lessons from the Heartland tells of an iconic city's fall from grace-and of its chance for redemption in the twenty-first century.A symbol of middle American working-class values and pride, Wisconsin-and in particular urban Milwaukee-has been at the forefront of a half-century of public education experiments, from desegregation and ?school choice," to vouchers and charter schools. Pickin
• Titolo autorizzato: Lessons from the heartland
• ISBN: 1-59558-864-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786016903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II