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When the fences come down : twenty-first-century lessons from metropolitan school desegregation /

This work explores what happens when communities focus squarely on overcoming the educational divide between city and suburb. Based on evidence from metropolitan school desegregation efforts between 1990 and 2010, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley uses quantitative methods and innovative mapping tools to unde...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Siegel-Hawley, Genevieve (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : metropolitan school desegregation, past and present
  • Background. Why boundary lines matter so much, and what we have done about them ; School policy is housing policy, and vice versa
  • Analysis. Divergent paths : school and housing desegregation in four southern cities ; Divergent outcomes : the contemporary relationship between school and housing segregation in four southern cities
  • Solutions. The choice conundrum : challenges and opportunities for voluntary school desegregation policy ; Education and the regional agenda
  • Afterword / with Gary Orfield.