Segregated schools : educational apartheid in post-civil rights America /

Street, Paul Louis.

Segregated schools : educational apartheid in post-civil rights America / Paul Street. - New York : Routledge, 2005. - 1 online resource (x, 222 pages) - Positions : education, politics, and culture . - Positions (RoutledgeFalmer (Firm)) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

No birthday bash for Brown -- Still and increasingly separate -- Still savage school inequalities -- Separate but adequate -- The deeper inequality -- Why separatism matters.

Fifty years after the US Supreme Court ruled that ""separate but equal"" was ""inherently unequal, "" Paul Street argues that little progress has been made to meaningful reform America's schools. In fact, Street considers the racial make-up of today's schools as a state of de facto apartheid. With an eye to historical development of segregated education, Street examines the current state of school funding and investigates disparities in teacher quality, teacher stability, curriculum, classroom supplies, faculties, student-teacher ratios, teacher' expectations for students and students' expec

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Segregation in education--United States.
Educational equalization--United States.
Ségrégation en éducation--États-Unis.
Démocratisation de l'enseignement--États-Unis.
EDUCATION--Administration--General.
EDUCATION--Educational Policy & Reform--General.
Educational equalization.
Segregation in education.
Rassentrennung
Schule
Sociale ongelijkheid.
Sociaal milieu.
Etnische groepen.
Onderwijs.
Gelijke kansen.


United States.
USA


Electronic books.

LC212.52 / .S87 2005eb

379.2/63/0973

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