After "Brown"
Subtitle: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: April 19, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780691119113
Subjects: Multicultural studies; Organization & management of education; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Educational Policy & Reform; Education / Teaching; Education; USA; School integration; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Education / Educational Reform; Law; Political Science and International Relations; Sociology; Education and state; History; Segregation in education; United States
First sentence: THE CHANGES wrought by school desegregation since the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision have been at times dramatic, uneven, and subject to reversal.
Description: "The United States Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, set into motion a process of desegregation that would eventually transform American public schools. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of how Brown's most visible effect - contact between students of different racial groups - has changed over the fifty years since the decision." "Using both published and unpublished data on school enrollments from across the country, Charles Clotfelter uses measures of interracial contact, racial isolation, and segregation to chronicle the changes. He goes beyond previous studies by drawing on heretofore unanalyzed enrollment data covering the first decade after Brown, calculating segregation for metropolitan areas rather than just school districts, accounting for private schools, presenting recent information on segregation within schools, and measuring segregation in college enrollment."--BOOK JACKET.