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Despite the Best Intentions : How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199711536
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Despite the Best IntentionsDDC classification:
  • 379.260973
LOC classification:
  • LC212.2 .D53 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Series -- Despite the Best Intentions -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Race, Oppositional Culture, and School Outcomes: Are We Barking Up the Wrong Tree? -- 3. The Road to Detention Is Paved with Good Intentions: Race and Discipline at Riverview -- 4. "It's Like Two High Schools": Race, Tracking, and Performance Expectations -- 5. Opportunity Hoarding: Creating and Maintaining Racial Advantage -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix: Short Summary of Research Methods -- Notes -- References -- About the Authors -- Index.
Summary: A rich and disturbing portrait of the achievement gap that persists more than fifty years after the formal dismantling of segregation.
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Cover -- Series -- Despite the Best Intentions -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Race, Oppositional Culture, and School Outcomes: Are We Barking Up the Wrong Tree? -- 3. The Road to Detention Is Paved with Good Intentions: Race and Discipline at Riverview -- 4. "It's Like Two High Schools": Race, Tracking, and Performance Expectations -- 5. Opportunity Hoarding: Creating and Maintaining Racial Advantage -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix: Short Summary of Research Methods -- Notes -- References -- About the Authors -- Index.

A rich and disturbing portrait of the achievement gap that persists more than fifty years after the formal dismantling of segregation.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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