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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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Siegel-Hawley, Genevieve (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
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Résumé: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 underscore the damages wrought by school-district boundary lines and to raise awareness about communities that have sought to counteract them.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-213) and index.
ISBN:9781469627854
146962785X
9781469627847
1469627841