Still Failing - The Continuing Paradox of School Desegregation

Informationen zum Autor Stephen J. Caldas has published many articles and books on school desegregation. He also publishes in the area of bilingual education. He currently teaches quantitative research methodology and education policy at Manhattanville College in New York. Carl L. Bankston III is an American sociologist and author. He is best known for his work on immigration to the United States! particularly on the adaptation of Vietnamese-American immigrants! and for his work on ethnicity! social capital! sociology of religion! and the sociology of eduction. Klappentext Still Failing: The Continuing Paradox of School Desegregation is a significantly updated and revised version of Caldas and Bankston's previous book Forced to Fail: The Paradox of School Desegregation. The book includes an analysis of the most significant Supreme Court cases that have been decided in the ten years since the first edition of the book appeared. The authors consider the important implications of these recent rulings for the future of school desegregation in America's schools. Social capital theory is used to explain why schools and communities continue to be segregated along racial and ethnic lines. Still Failing also provides the most recent U.S. census and Department of Education statistics documenting the continuing segregation of American schools and districts. The book also continues to track the persistent racial achievement gap! using the newest ACT! SAT! and NAEP testing figures. Finally! the book considers what present segregation trends portend for future efforts to racially and ethnically integrate schools! and close achievement gaps. Additional key features of this book include: -Historical antecedents showing how and why American schooling became racially segregated -Social capital theory to explain school and community segregation -The legal history of all important supreme court cases! congressional laws and presidential executive orders related to school segregation and desegregation -Easy-to-read and interpret graphs and figures -The most up-to-date school population and census information Zusammenfassung This book includes an analysis of the most significant Supreme Court cases that have been decided in the ten years since the first edition of the book appeared. The authors consider the important implications of these recent rulings for the future of school desegregation in America's schools. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Chapter 1 - School Desegregation: Irrelevant Public Policy? The Continuing Racial and Socioeconomic Segregation of American Schools Resegregation by the Numbers Failure of Will or Failure of Command and Control? Redistributing Children's "Social Capital" The Fallacy of "Diversity" Unintended Consequences A Noble! Misguided Vision Blinders of Moral Commitment Chapter 2 - How Did We Get Here? The Long Legal Road The Genesis of Civil Rights The Paradox of Slavery in Free Market Society Reconstruction and the Origins of "Affirmative" Protection of Group Rights Retreat from Reconstruction and the Protection of Group Rights Plessy v. Ferguson and "Separate but Equal" The Era of Jim Crow and American "Apartheid" Black Grass Roots Resistance to "Separate but Equal" The Earthquake of Brown I Grass Roots Civil Rights Struggle A Return to Reconstruction The Desegregation Battle Intensifies A Sea Change of Civil Rights Freedom of Choice "Affirmative" Action Maximum Federal Involvement Chapter 3-Desegregation Expansion-and Limits Setting Limits Unitary Status and the End of Oversight The Diversity Doctrine and Supreme Court Schizophrenia The Future of Desegregation Litigation Chapter 4 - The Demographic Transformation of America A Changing Society Family Structure Demographic Change: New Student Populations Hispanic Explosion The Asian Advantage The Problem of Poverty Demographics and School Desegregation ...

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• Authors: Carl L Bankston, Carl L. Bankston, Carl L. III Bankston, Bankston Carl L., Stephen J Caldas, Stephen J. Caldas, Stephen J. Bankston Caldas, Caldas Stephen J., Carl L Bankston Iii
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.2014
• EAN: 9781610489638
• ISBN: 978-1-61048-963-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; USA, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, United States of America, USA, Schools, Multicultural education, Schools and pre-schools, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / General