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Author Ryan, James E. (James Edward)

Title Five miles away, a world apart : one city, two schools, and the story of educational opportunity in modern America / James E. Ryan.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 384 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-369) and index.
Summary How is it that, half a century after Brown volume Board of Education, educational opportunities remain so unequal for black and white students, not to mention poor and wealthy ones?
Contents Introduction: Freeman and Tee-Jay -- Past: School desegregation and middle America. Buying time ; Don't cross that line -- Present: Save the cities, spare the suburbs. Desegregating dollars ; Like a Russian novel: school finance litigation in state courts ; Limited choices ; The impact of choice and the role of courts ; Lowering the bar: the standards and testing movement -- Future: Democracy is opportunity. In search of ties that bind ; Freeman and Tee-Jay revisited.
Note Print version record.
Subject Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Education -- United States -- Regional disparities.
Discrimination in education -- Law and legislation -- United States.
School integration -- Law and legislation -- United States.
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Discrimination in education -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst00895042
Education -- Regional disparities. (OCoLC)fst00902737
School integration -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst01107481
Segregation in education -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst01111224
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Title 5 miles away, a world apart
Other Form: Print version: Ryan, James E. (James Edward). Five miles away, a world apart. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010 9780195327380 (DLC) 2009033219 (OCoLC)401165245
Standard No. 9786612767340
ISBN 9780199745609 (electronic bk.)
0199745609 (electronic bk.)
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