From the courtroom to the classroom
Subtitle: the shifting landscape of school desegregation
By: Claire E. Smrekar and Ellen B. Goldring, editors.
Contributors: Smrekar, Claire.; Goldring, Ellen B. 1957-
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781934742211; 9781934742204
Subjects: School integration -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-350) and index.
Table of contents: title: Looking back : the effects of court-ordered desegregation  -- Jomills Henry Braddock II; title: Trends in school racial composition in the era of unitary status  -- Brian P. An and Adam Gamoran; title: The post-PICS picture : examining school districts' policy options for mitigating racial segregation  -- Kevin G. Welner and Eleanor R. Spindler; title: Equal educational opportunity, school reform, and the courts : a study of the desegregation litigation in San Jose  -- William S. Koski and Jeannie Oakes; title: Sheff v. O'Neill : weak desegregation remedies and strong disincentives in Connecticut, 1996-2008  -- Jack Dougherty, Jesse Wanzer, and Christina Ramsay; title: Resegregation, achievement, and the chimera of choice in post-unitary Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools  -- Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Stephen Samuel Smith, and Stephanie Southworth; title: Neighborhood schools in the aftermath of court-ended busing : educators' perpectives on how context and composition matter  -- Claire E. Smrekar and Ellen B. Goldring; title: Administrative decisions and racial segregation in North Carolina public schools  -- Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L. Vigdor; title: The end of Keyes :  resegregation trends and achievement in Denver public schools  -- Catherine L. Horn and Michal Kurlaender; title: Integrated schools, integrated futures? : a case study of school desegregation in Jefferson County, Kentucky  -- Kristie J.R. Phillips ... [et al.] -- Conclusion:; title: Racial realities across different places : dual directions in recommitting to the promises of Brown -- Jerome E. Morris.