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A TROUBLED DREAM
THE PROMISE AND FAILURE OF SCHOOL DESEGREGATION IN LOUISIANA |
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Paperback |
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£33.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0826513891 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780826513892 |
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| Publisher: |
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 December, 2001 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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 middle-class white students. Using extensive interviews and a wealth of statistical information, this text examines the failed desegregation efforts in Louisiana as a case study of how desegregation has followed the same unsuccessful pattern across the US. It shows that the practical difficulty with desegregation is that academic environments are created by all the students in a school from the the backgrounds that all the students bring with them. |
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44 tables, 17 figures, bibliography, index |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Vanderbilt University Press |
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