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A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana
Bankston, Carl L., Caldas, Stephen J.
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Description for A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana
The attempt to improve academic performance by African American students in the US by rearranging the racial mix through desegregation has proven simplistic and inadequate. This text examines Louisiana as a case study of how desegregation has followed the same unsuccessful pattern across the US. Num Pages: 304 pages, 44 tables, 17 figures, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; JFSL3; JNK; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Despite decades of effort to reverse such trends, disproportionate numbers of African American students continue to grow up in poverty, in single-parent households, raised by adults with limited education and skills - characteristics that are widely acknowledged as detrimental to academic success. The attempt to improve academic performance by merely rearranging the racial mix through desegregation has proven to be an overly simplistic and inadequate means of providing disadvantaged children with the skills and support they so desperately need. In fact, it appears that coercive desegregation efforts have actually caused school systems to re-segregate, by driving out large numbers of ... Read more
Despite decades of effort to reverse such trends, disproportionate numbers of African American students continue to grow up in poverty, in single-parent households, raised by adults with limited education and skills - characteristics that are widely acknowledged as detrimental to academic success. The attempt to improve academic performance by merely rearranging the racial mix through desegregation has proven to be an overly simplistic and inadequate means of providing disadvantaged children with the skills and support they so desperately need. In fact, it appears that coercive desegregation efforts have actually caused school systems to re-segregate, by driving out large numbers of ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826513885
SKU
V9780826513885
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About Bankston, Carl L., Caldas, Stephen J.
Carl L. Bankston III is associate professor of sociology at Tulane University and co-author of the prize-winning Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States, Stephen J. Caldas has been a public school teacher and worked as the psychometrician for the Louisiana Department of Education. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles on school achievement ... Read more
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