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Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)
Lewis, Amanda E., Diamond, John B.
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Description for Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)
Hardcover. A rich and disturbing portrait of the achievement gap that persists more than fifty years after the formal dismantling of segregation Series: Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; JN; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 243 x 26. Weight in Grams: 498.
On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an enviably affluent, diverse, and liberal district, the school is well-funded, its teachers are well-trained, and many of its students are high achieving. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question that plagues schools throughout America: why is it that even when all of the circumstances seem right, black and Latino students continue to lag behind their peers? Through five years' worth of interviews and data-gathering at Riverview, John Diamond and Amanda Lewis have created a rich and disturbing portrait of the achievement gap that ... Read more
On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an enviably affluent, diverse, and liberal district, the school is well-funded, its teachers are well-trained, and many of its students are high achieving. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question that plagues schools throughout America: why is it that even when all of the circumstances seem right, black and Latino students continue to lag behind their peers? Through five years' worth of interviews and data-gathering at Riverview, John Diamond and Amanda Lewis have created a rich and disturbing portrait of the achievement gap that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Series
Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195342727
SKU
V9780195342727
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About Lewis, Amanda E., Diamond, John B.
John Diamond is the Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Education. Amanda Lewis is an associate professor of sociology at Emory University.
Reviews for Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)
"Lewis and Diamond persuasively explain the gross misalignment between abstract values and unequal outcomes. In a racially diverse school like Riverview, parents, teachers, and students can value diversity and equality in principle, but they can also behave in ways that exacerbate and reproduce class and racial hierarchies, resulting in an achievement gap that will not disappear with raceneutral policies." - ... Read more