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School resegregation : must the South turn back? /

Leading thinkers in the fields of race and public education discuss the current trend of resegregation in southern schools, a trend many policymakers would prefer to ignore, but that nonetheless profoundly affects public education in the South. Essays examine why resegregation is occurring; the effe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Boger, John Charles (Editor ), Orfield, Gary (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
Colección:H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The Southern dilemma: losing Brown, fearing Plessy / Gary Orfield. Part 1. The history of the federal judicial role: from Brown to Green to color-blind. The segregation and resegregation of American public education: the courts' role / Erwin Chemerinsky. Part 2. The color of Southern schooling: contemporary trends. Integrating neighborhoods, segregating schools: the retreat from school desegregation in the South, 1990-2000 / Sean F. Reardon and John T. Yun
  • Classroom-level segregation and resegregation in North Carolina / Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L. Vigdor
  • The incomplete desegregation of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools and its consequences, 1971-2004 / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
  • School segregation in Texas at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Luis M. Laosa. Part 3. The adverse impacts of resegregation. Does resegregation matter?: the impact of social composition on academic achievement in Southern high schools / Russell W. Rumberger and Gregory J. Palardy
  • Racial segregation in Georgia public schools, 1994-2001: trends, causes, and impact on teacher quality / Catherine E. Freeman, Benjamin Scafidi, and David L. Sjoquist
  • The impact of school segregation on residential housing patterns: Mobile, Alabama and Charlotte, North Carolina / Erica Frankenberg. Part 4. The new pressures from standardized testing. No accountability for diversity: standardized tests and the demise of racially mixed schools / Amy Stuart Wells and Jennifer Jellison Holme
  • High-stakes testing, nationally and in the South: Disparate impact, opportunity to learn, and current legal protections / Jay P. Heubert. Part 5. The uncertain future. The future of race-conscious policies in K-12 public schools: Support from recent legal opinions and social science research / Jacinta S. Ma and Michal Kurlaender
  • Moving beyond race: socioeconomic diversity as a race-neutral approach to desegregation in the Wake County Schools.
  • Susan Leigh Flinspach and Karen E. Banks
  • A new theory of integrated education: true integration / John A. Powell. Conclusion. Brown and the American south: fateful choices / John Charles Boger.