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Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh

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Description for Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh Paperback. A study of urban social policy that combines field research and historical narrative in lucid and engaging prose. It compares two cities - Syracuse, New York, and Raleigh, North Carolina - in order to examine the consequences of the nation's ongoing educational inequities. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG; JNF; JNL; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 234.
In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5–4 verdict in Milliken v. Bradley, thereby blocking the state of Michigan from merging the Detroit public school system with those of the surrounding suburbs. This decision effectively walled off underprivileged students in many American cities, condemning them to a system of racial and class segregation and destroying their chances of obtaining a decent education. In Hope and Despair in the American City, Gerald Grant compares two cities—his hometown of Syracuse, New York, and Raleigh, North Carolina—in order to examine the consequences of the nation’s ongoing educational inequities. The school system ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674060265
SKU
V9780674060265
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-37

About Gerald Grant
Gerald Grant is Hannah Hammond Professor of Education and Sociology, Emeritus, at Syracuse University.

Reviews for Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh
In Hope and Despair in the American City, Gerald Grant has written a profound book about American cities and their schools. He combines far-ranging scholarship with lively field research, autobiography, historical narrative, and an expert grasp of demographic data and the winding mazes of legal opinion. The result is a big and ambitious portrait, through the story of two cities, ... Read more

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