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Title Brown v. Board of Education : the challenge for today's schools / Ellen Condliffe Lagemann and LaMar P. Miller, editors.

Imprint New York : Teachers College Press, c1996.

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Description vi, 217 p. ; 23 cm.
Series Special issues from the Teachers College record
Note "Originally published in Teachers College record, v. 96, no. 4, summer 1995"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents An American dilemma still / Ellen Condliffe Lagemann -- Tracking the progress of Brown / LaMar P. Miller -- Dream deferred but not defeated / Roger Wilkins -- The unending struggle for equal educational opportunity / Robert L. Carter -- The federal government and the promise of Brown / Brian K. Landsberg -- The legacy of Brown v. Board of Education / Constance Baker Motley -- Revisiting the Supreme Court's opinion in Brown v. Board of Education from a multiculturalist perspective / Kevin Brown -- Public opinion and school desegregation / Gary Orfield -- Diversity and the new immigrants / LaMar P. Miller, Lisa A. Tanners, Jeannie Oakes -- Reexamining social science research on school desegregation : long- versus short-term effects / Amy Stuart Wells -- Reflections on the promise of Brown and multicultural education / Carl A. Grant -- Inequalities in educational financing / Howard A. Glickstein -- Race and choice in Montgomery County, Maryland, magnet schools / Jeffrey R. Henig -- The false premises and false promises of the movement to privatize public education / Willis D. Hawley -- After forty years : the other half of the puzzle / John A. Murphy -- The promise of accountability and standards in the achievement of equal educational opportunity / Edmund W. Gordon -- Fulfulling the promise of Brown / Judith A. Winston -- Educational equity issues in an information age / Dennis Sayers -- Brown and Lau : seeking the common ground / Rosa Castro Feinberg -- Of promises and visions : Brown as a gift to American democracy / Joshua P. Bogin -- Brown at fifty : six visions / Burt Neuborne.
Subject Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- History
Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- History
Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- History.
Added Author Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe, 1945-
Miller, LaMar P.
ISBN 0807735248 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

 
    
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