Uncivil rights : teachers, unions, and race in the battle for school equity

Uncivil rights : teachers, unions, and race in the battle for school equity /

Almost fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At the heart of this inequality is a complex and often conflicted relationship between teachers and civil rights activists, examined fully for the first t...

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Main Author: Perrillo, Jonna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012
Subjects:
Educational equalization > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Education > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Racism in education > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Teachers > Political activity > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Teachers > Civil rights > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Teachers' unions > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Education.
dissertations.
Academic theses.
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Table of Contents:
  • Building a "new social order": teachers, teacher unions, and equity in the Great Depression
  • Muscular democracy: teachers and the War on Prejudice, 1940
  • 1950
  • Organizing the oppressed teacher: teachers' rights in the Cold War
  • "An educator's commitment": professionalism and civil rights in the 1960s
  • From teachers' rights to teacher power
  • Conclusion: moving beyond rights?: teacher professionalism and civil rights in the era of No Child Left Behind.

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