Five miles away, a world apart : one city, two schools, and the story of educational opportunity in modern America / James E. Ryan.
2010
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Title
Five miles away, a world apart : one city, two schools, and the story of educational opportunity in modern America / James E. Ryan.
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Call Number
KF4155 .R93 2010
ISBN
9780195327380 (hardback : alk. paper)
0195327381 (hardback : alk. paper)
0195327381 (hardback : alk. paper)
Description
ix, 384 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)401165245
Summary
How is it that, half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, educational opportunities remain so unequal for black and white students, not to mention poor and wealthy ones?
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-369) and index.
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5 miles away, a world apart
Table of Contents
Introduction Freeman and Tee-Jay
1
pt. I
Past: School Desegregation and Middle America
ch. l
Buying Time
21
ch. 2
Don't Cross That Line
63
pt. II
Present: Save the Cities, Spare the Suburbs
ch. 3
Desegregating Dollars
121
ch. 4
Like a Russian Novel: School Finance Litigation in State Courts
145
ch. 5
Limited Choices
181
ch. 6
The Impact of Choice and the Role of Courts
215
ch. 7
Lowering the Bar: The Standards and Testing Movement
239
pt. III
Future: Demography Is Opportunity
ch. 8
In Search of Ties That Bind
271
Epilogue Freeman and Tee-Jay Revisited
305
Notes
309
Bibliography
347
Index
371