School resegregation : must the South turn back? /
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 the legal and policy analysis of why these trends are accelerating, how they are harmful, and what can be done to counter them. Wh...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2005]
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| Series: | H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
UNC Press law publications. Civil rights and social justice. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The Southern dilemma: losing Brown, fearing Plessy / Gary Orfield. Part 1. 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 / Erwin Chemerinsky. Part 2. The color of Southern schooling: contemporary trends. Integrating neighborhoods, segregating schools: the retreat from school desegregation in the South, 1990-2000 / Sean F. Reardon and John T. Yun
- Classroom-level segregation and resegregation in North Carolina / Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L. Vigdor
- The incomplete desegregation of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools and its consequences, 1971-2004 / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
- School segregation in Texas at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Luis M. Laosa. Part 3. The adverse impacts of resegregation. Does resegregation matter?: the impact of social composition on academic achievement in Southern high schools / Russell W. Rumberger and Gregory J. Palardy
- Racial segregation in Georgia public schools, 1994-2001: trends, causes, and impact on teacher quality / Catherine E. Freeman, Benjamin Scafidi, and David L. Sjoquist
- The impact of school segregation on residential housing patterns: Mobile, Alabama and Charlotte, North Carolina / Erica Frankenberg. Part 4. The new pressures from standardized testing. No accountability for diversity: standardized tests and the demise of racially mixed schools / Amy Stuart Wells and Jennifer Jellison Holme
- High-stakes testing, nationally and in the South: Disparate impact, opportunity to learn, and current legal protections / Jay P. Heubert. Part 5. The uncertain future. The future of race-conscious policies in K-12 public schools: Support from recent legal opinions and social science research / Jacinta S. Ma and Michal Kurlaender
- Moving beyond race: socioeconomic diversity as a race-neutral approach to desegregation in the Wake County Schools / Susan Leigh Flinspach and Karen E. Banks
- A new theory of integrated education: true integration / John A. Powell. Conclusion. Brown and the American south: fateful choices / John Charles Boger.