School Resegregation Must the South Turn Back?

Name: School Resegregation Must the South Turn Back?
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ISBN: 9780807856130

ISBN-10: 0807856134

ISBN-13: 9780807856130

Edition: 2005

Authors: John Charles Boger, Gary Orfield

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Confronting a reality that many policy makers would prefer to ignore, contributors to this volume offer the latest information on the trend toward the racial and socioeconomic resegregation of southern schools. In the region that has achieved more widespread public school integration than any other since 1970, resegregation, combined with resource inequities and the current "accountability movement," is now bringing public education in the South to a critical crossroads. In thirteen essays, leading thinkers in the field of race and public education present not only the latest data and statistics on the trend toward resegregation but also legal and policy analysis of why these trends are…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/12/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction. The Southern Dilemma: Losing Brown, Fearing Plessy




The History of the Federal Judicial Role: From Brown to Green to Color-Blind



The Segregation and Resegregation of American Public Education: The Courts' Role




The Color of Southern Schooling: Contemporary Trends



Integrating Neighborhoods, Segregating Schools: The Retreat from School Desegregation in the South, 1990-2000




Classroom-Level Segregation and Resegregation in North Carolina




The Incomplete Desegregation of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and Its Consequences, 1971-2004




School Segregation in Texas at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century




The Adverse Impacts of Resegregation



Does Resegregation Matter?: The Impact of Social Composition on Academic Achievement in Southern High Schools




Racial Segregation in Georgia Public Schools, 1994-2001: Trends, Causes, and Impact on Teacher Quality




The Impact of School Segregation on Residential Housing Patterns: Mobile, Alabama, and Charlotte, North Carolina




The New Pressures from Standardized Testing



No Accountability for Diversity: Standardized Tests and the Demise of Racially Mixed Schools




High-Stakes Testing, Nationally and in the South: Disparate Impact, Opportunity to Learn, and Current Legal Protections




The Uncertain Future



The Future of Race-Conscious Policies in K-12 Public Schools: Support from Recent Legal Opinions and Social Science Research




Moving beyond Race: Socioeconomic Diversity as a Race-Neutral Approach to Desegregation in the Wake County Schools




A New Theory of Integrated Education: True Integration



Conclusion. Brown and the American South: Fateful Choices



Bibliography


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