Schools Betrayed: Roots of Failure in Inner-City Education - Rilegato

Neckerman, Kathryn M.

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ISBN 10: 0226569608 ISBN 13: 9780226569604

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2007

Riassunto

The problems commonly associated with inner-city schools were not nearly as pervasive a century ago, when black children in most northern cities attended school alongside white children. InSchools Betrayed, her innovative history of race and urban education, Kathryn M. Neckerman tells the story of how and why these schools came to serve black children so much worse than their white counterparts.

Focusing on Chicago public schools between 1900 and 1960, Neckerman compares the circumstances of blacks and white immigrants, groups that had similarly little wealth and status yet came to gain vastly different benefits from their education. Their divergent educational outcomes, she contends, stemmed from Chicago officials’ decision to deal with rising African American migration by segregating schools and denying black students equal resources. And it deepened, she shows, because of techniques for managing academic failure that only reinforced inequality. Ultimately, these tactics eroded the legitimacy of the schools in Chicago’s black community, leaving educators unable to help their most disadvantaged students.

Schools Betrayed will be required reading for anyone who cares about urban education.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Kathryn M. Neckerman is associate professor of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University, and an affiliate of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health and Society Scholars Program and the institute’s Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226569608
• ISBN 13: 9780226569604
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 260
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile