Forced to fail : the paradox of school desegregation / / Stephen J. Caldas and Carl L. Bankston III
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| Autore: |
Caldas Stephen J. <1957->
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| Titolo: |
Forced to fail : the paradox of school desegregation / / Stephen J. Caldas and Carl L. Bankston III
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| Pubblicazione: | Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2005 |
| London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 379.2/63/0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Educational equalization - United States |
| Segregation in education - United States | |
| Altri autori: |
BankstonCarl L <1952-> (Carl Leon)
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-247) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Caldas 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 ho |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Forced to fail |
| ISBN: | 979-84-00-65292-9 |
| 1-280-70664-3 | |
| 9786610706648 | |
| 0-313-05024-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820320003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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