All Together Now : Creating Middle-Class Schools through Public School Choice /

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Annotation "In All Together Now, Richard D. Kahlenberg offers a provocative idea for improving public education: give every American child the right to attend a school in which the majority of students come from middle-class homes." "Kahlenberg combines Mann's nineteenth-century...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kahlenberg, Richard D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Public schools.
Educational equalization.
Education > Economic aspects.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Écoles publiques > États-Unis.
Éducation > Aspect economique > États-Unis.
Democratisation de l'enseignement > États-Unis.
Public schools > United States.
Education > Economic aspects > United States.
Educational equalization > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • American schools today: falling short of our goals
  • The case for economic school desegregation
  • The significance of the socioeconomic makeup of schools
  • The difficulty with alternatives to socioeconomic integration
  • How socioeconomic integration can be achieved in practice
  • Political and legal strategies
  • Rebutting the case against socioeconomic integration
  • Practical experience with socioeconomic integration.

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