Schools betrayed : roots of failure in inner-city education /
The problems commonly associated with inner-city schools were not nearly as pervasive a century ago, when black children in most northern cities attended school alongside white children. In Schools Betrayed, her innovative history of race and urban education, Kathryn M. Neckerman tells the story of...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press,
2007
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | The problems commonly associated with inner-city schools were not nearly as pervasive a century ago, when black children in most northern cities attended school alongside white children. In Schools Betrayed, her innovative history of race and urban education, Kathryn M. Neckerman tells the story of how and why these schools came to serve black children so much worse than their white counterparts. Focusing on Chicago public schools between 1900 and 1960, Neckerman compares the circumstances of blacks and white immigrants, groups that had similarly little wealth and status yet came to gain vastl. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226569628 0226569624 1281966045 9781281966049 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
