Schools Betrayed
Subtitle: Roots of Failure in Inner-City Education
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: September 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780226569604
Subjects: Schools; Urban communities; Social Science; Education / Teaching; Sociology; Discrimination & Racism; Educational Policy & Reform; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; History; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; Sociology - Urban; 20th century; Chicago; Education, Urban; Illinois; Racism in education; Urban schools
Description: The problems commonly associated with inner-city schools were not nearly as pervasive a century ago, when black children in most northern cities attended school alongside white children. This book tells the story of how and why these schools came to serve black children so much worse than their white counterparts.