School Resegregation - Must the South Turn Back?

Informationen zum Autor John Charles Boger is Wade Edwards Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law and deputy director of the University of North Carolina Center for Civil Rights. He is coeditor of Race, Poverty, and American Cities . Gary Orfield is professor of education, law, political science, and urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles and codirector of The Civil Rights Project at UCLA. Klappentext Leading thinkers in the fields of race and public education discuss the current trend of resegregation in southern schools, a trend many policymakers would prefer to ignore, but that nonetheless profoundly affects public education in the South. Essays examine why resegregation is occurring; the effects of the trend, especially on students of color and in high-poverty areas; and what might be done to counteract it. Zusammenfassung Public education at the crossroads.

Product details

• Authors: John Charles Boger, John Charles (EDT)/ Orfield Boger
• Assisted by: John Charles Boger (Editor), Gary Orfield (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2005
• EAN: 9780807856130
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-5613-0
• No. of pages: 380
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs L
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system