Because of Race How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools

Name: Because of Race How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools
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ISBN: 9780691148090

ISBN-10: 0691148090

ISBN-13: 9780691148090

Edition: 2008

Authors: Mica Pollock

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InBecause of Race, Mica Pollock tackles a long-standing and fraught debate over racial inequalities in America's schools. Which denials of opportunity experienced by students of color should be remedied? Pollock exposes raw, real-time arguments over what inequalities of opportunity based on race in our schools look like today--and what, if anything, various Americans should do about it.Pollock encountered these debates while working at the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights in 1999-2001. For more than two years, she listened to hundreds of parents, advocates, educators, and federal employees talk about the educational treatment of children and youth in specific schools…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/22/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Harms to Children of Color Cannot Be Proved



Harms to Children of Color Should Not Be Discussed



Harms to Children of Color Cannot Be Remedied



Harms to Children of Color are Too "Small" to Fix


Conclusion: Arguing toward Everyday Justice in the New Civil Rights Era


Notes


Bibliography


Index