School Resegregation

Must the South Turn Back?
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8078-5613-0
Verlag: University of North Carolina Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

Reihe: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series

Public education at the crossroads Confronting a reality that many policy makers would prefer to ignore, contributors to this volume offer the latest information on the trend toward the racial and socioeconomic resegregation of southern schools. In the region that has achieved more widespread public school integration than any other since 1970, resegregation, combined with resource inequities and the current ""accountability movement,"" is now bringing public education in the South to a critical crossroads. In thirteen essays, leading thinkers in the field of race and public education present not only the latest data and statistics on the trend toward resegregation but also the legal and policy analysis of why these trends are accelerating, how they are harmful, and what can be done to counter them. What's at stake is the quality of education available to both white and nonwhite students, they argue. This volume will help educators, policy makers, and concerned citizens begin a much-needed dialogue about how America can best educate its increasingly multiethnic student population in the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boger, John Charles

Orfield, Gary

Über Autor(innen)

Gary Orfield is professor of education and social policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and codirector of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University