The Resource Race and education, 1954-2007, Raymond Wolters
Race and education, 1954-2007, Raymond Wolters
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- Summary
- "With the Supreme Court{u2019}s landmark Brown decisions of 1954 and 1955, American education changed forever. But Brown was just the beginning, and Raymond Wolters contends that its best intentions have been taken to unnecessary extremes. In this compelling study, a scholar who has long observed the traumas of school desegregation uncovers the changes and difficulties with which public education has dealt over the last fifty years{u2014}and argues that some judicial decisions were ill-advised. Dealing candidly with matters usually considered taboo in academic discourse, Wolters argues that the Supreme Court acted correctly and in accordance with public sentiment in Brown but that it later took a wrong turn by equating desegregation with integration. Retracing the history of desegregation and integration in America{u2019}s schools, Wolters distinguishes between several Court decisions, explaining that while Brown called for desegregation by requiring that schools deal with students on a racially nondiscriminatory basis, subsequent decisions{u2014}Green, Swann, Keyes{u2014}required actual integration through racial balancing. He places these decisions in the context of educational reform in the 1950s that sought to encourage bright students through advanced placement and honors courses{u2014}courses in which African American and Hispanic students were less likely to be enrolled. Then with the racial unrest of the 1960s, the pursuit of academic excellence yielded to concerns for uplifting disadvantaged youths and ensuring the predominance of middle-class peer groups in schools. Wolters draws on rich historical records to document the devastating consequences of requiring racial balance and sheds new light on America{u2019}s legal, social, and cultural landscapes. He reexamines the educational theories of Kenneth Clark and James Coleman, and he challenges statistics that support the results of racial balancing by describing how school desegregation and integration actually proceeded in several towns, cities, and counties. Race and Education is a bold challenge to political correctness in education and a corrective to the now widely accepted notion that desegregation and racially balanced integration are one and the same. It is essential reading for scholars of law and education and a wake-up call for citizens concerned about the future of America{u2019}s schools."--Publishers website
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 313 pages
- Contents
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- Constitutional history and social science
- School reform in the 1950s
- Desegregation begins
- In the deep south
- Desegregation transformed
- Educational reform in the 1960s
- The travail of integration
- Controversy over white flight and the effects of racially balanced integration
- From Brown to Green and back
- The diversity rationale
- Isbn
- 9780826218285
- Label
- Race and education, 1954-2007
- Title
- Race and education, 1954-2007
- Statement of responsibility
- Raymond Wolters
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "With the Supreme Court{u2019}s landmark Brown decisions of 1954 and 1955, American education changed forever. But Brown was just the beginning, and Raymond Wolters contends that its best intentions have been taken to unnecessary extremes. In this compelling study, a scholar who has long observed the traumas of school desegregation uncovers the changes and difficulties with which public education has dealt over the last fifty years{u2014}and argues that some judicial decisions were ill-advised. Dealing candidly with matters usually considered taboo in academic discourse, Wolters argues that the Supreme Court acted correctly and in accordance with public sentiment in Brown but that it later took a wrong turn by equating desegregation with integration. Retracing the history of desegregation and integration in America{u2019}s schools, Wolters distinguishes between several Court decisions, explaining that while Brown called for desegregation by requiring that schools deal with students on a racially nondiscriminatory basis, subsequent decisions{u2014}Green, Swann, Keyes{u2014}required actual integration through racial balancing. He places these decisions in the context of educational reform in the 1950s that sought to encourage bright students through advanced placement and honors courses{u2014}courses in which African American and Hispanic students were less likely to be enrolled. Then with the racial unrest of the 1960s, the pursuit of academic excellence yielded to concerns for uplifting disadvantaged youths and ensuring the predominance of middle-class peer groups in schools. Wolters draws on rich historical records to document the devastating consequences of requiring racial balance and sheds new light on America{u2019}s legal, social, and cultural landscapes. He reexamines the educational theories of Kenneth Clark and James Coleman, and he challenges statistics that support the results of racial balancing by describing how school desegregation and integration actually proceeded in several towns, cities, and counties. Race and Education is a bold challenge to political correctness in education and a corrective to the now widely accepted notion that desegregation and racially balanced integration are one and the same. It is essential reading for scholars of law and education and a wake-up call for citizens concerned about the future of America{u2019}s schools."--Publishers website
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1938-2020
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wolters, Raymond
- Dewey number
- 344.73/0798
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- KF4155
- LC item number
- .W645 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- University of Missouri Press
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- School integration
- Discrimination in education
- Label
- Race and education, 1954-2007, Raymond Wolters
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Constitutional history and social science -- School reform in the 1950s -- Desegregation begins -- In the deep south -- Desegregation transformed -- Educational reform in the 1960s -- The travail of integration -- Controversy over white flight and the effects of racially balanced integration -- From Brown to Green and back -- The diversity rationale
- Control code
- 227919874
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xi, 313 pages
- Isbn
- 9780826218285
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2008034656
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)227919874
- Label
- Race and education, 1954-2007, Raymond Wolters
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Constitutional history and social science -- School reform in the 1950s -- Desegregation begins -- In the deep south -- Desegregation transformed -- Educational reform in the 1960s -- The travail of integration -- Controversy over white flight and the effects of racially balanced integration -- From Brown to Green and back -- The diversity rationale
- Control code
- 227919874
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xi, 313 pages
- Isbn
- 9780826218285
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2008034656
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)227919874
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