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The end of consensus : diversity, neighborhoods, and the politics of public school assignments /

One of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas, Wake County, North Carolina, added more than a quarter million new residents during the first decade of this century, an increase of almost 45 percent. At the same time, partisanship increasingly dominated local politics, including school...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Parcel, Toby L. (Autor), Taylor, Andrew J., 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface and plan of the book
  • Acknowledgments
  • Assigning children to public schools
  • The Wake County public school system : a social and political history
  • A focus of conflict i: Wake schools? general student assignment policy
  • A focus of conflict ii: annual student reassignments
  • A focus of conflict iii: year-round schools
  • The great split: election 2009 and its aftermath
  • Is Wake different?
  • An epilogue and conclusion
  • Methodological appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.