Race and education, 1954-2007
By: Raymond Wolters.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780826218285
Subjects: School integration -- Law and legislation -- United States; Discrimination in education -- Law and legislation -- United States
Description: "Retracing Supreme Court decisions on race and education beginning with the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Wolters distinguishes between desegregation and integration and shows how devastating educational and cultural consequences resulted from subsequent Supreme Court decisions that conflated the two and led to racial balancing policies that have backfired"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Constitutional history and social science; title: School reform in the 1950s; title: Desegregation begins; title: In the deep south; title: Desegregation transformed; title: Educational reform in the 1960s; title: The travail of integration; title: Controversy over white flight and integration; title: From Brown to Green and back; title: The diversity rationale.