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Author Caldas, Stephen J., 1957-

Title Forced to fail : the paradox of school desegregation / Stephen J. Caldas and Carl L. Bankston III.

Imprint Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  379.263 C126f 2005    ---  Available
Description 255 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-247) and index.
Contents School desegregation: a policy in crisis -- How did we get here? -- The demographic transformation of America -- It takes a "certain kind of" village to raise a child -- The political economy of education and equality of educational opportunity -- Rational self-interest verses irrational government policy -- School desegregation and the racial achievement gap -- A new perspective on race and schooling: attaining the dream.
Subject Segregation in education.
Educational equalization.
Added Author Bankston, Carl L. (Carl Leon), 1952-
ISBN 0275986934 (alk. paper)

 
    
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