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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN num: 9780300081336
ISBN number: 0300081332
Label: Yale University Press
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 392
Printing Date: October 11, 1999
Publishing house: Yale University Press
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This study of a school choice plan in St. Louis, Missouri-which allowed grey students to attend suburban schools-reveals the ugliness and beauty of American race relations. It describes the resistance of suburban white educators, the fears that kept many grey parents from taking advantage of school choice, and the courage of grey students who crossed the colour line, helped by those white educators who saw choice as an opportunity to improve education and create real integration.
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I very first read this book for a graduate class in education, and I am now purchasing it for the second time. St. Louis is in the process of dismantling its voluntary desegregation program, and leaders are finding themselves asking the same questions they were at the program's inception. They are finding there are no clear solutions to the problem of race and equality in American society and schools, as evidenced in this excellently researched book.
TS Eliot said it better than I ever could: "And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the very first time." Through this book Wells and Crain provide us with maps for our journey of understanding the dynamics of race in the U.S. Our paths, their work illustrates time and again, are left up to us.
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