ISBN: 9781590337288 - the end of desegregation? (5 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Editor(s): Caldas, Stephen J.; Bankston, Carl L. Num Pages: 200 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: JFSL3; JNK; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 257 x 189 x 21. Weight in Grams: 682. . 2003. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnAfter over half a century of court-directed efforts to redress the historical educational chasm between blacks and whites in the United States, both the past achievements and the future direction of school desegregation are uncert.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After over half a century of court-directed efforts to redress the historical educational chasm between blacks and whites in the United States, both the past achievements and the future direction of school desegregation are uncertain. Too often, the early gains made in racially desegregating America's schools seem to have been halted, and in many cases reversed. Urban school decay is once again on the rise, with predictable consequences. For the very poorest minority students, who have limited educational options apart from dangerous, deteriorating neighbourhood schools, drop-out rates are high, standardised test scores are abysmally low, and violence is an everyday fact of life. The gulf between the unskilled, marginalised students being warehoused in these predominantly poor, minority schools on the one hand, and the increasingly high tech society they cannot compete in on the other, is growing. This ground-breaking book presents the viewpoints and research of some of the most prominent scholars in the field of school desegregation. It covers virtually the entire spectrum of thinking and scholarship on school desegregation and its promise, success, necessity, pitfalls and failures.…