A different view of urban schools civil rights, critical race theory, and unexplored realities /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
P. Lang,
c2006.
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| Series: | Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ;
v. 291. |
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| Online Access: | Available in Education Source. |
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Table of Contents:
- Themes and theories, personal and academic
- The bad old days : the pre-civil rights history of a Northern school district
- "Mississippi West" : Oakland's civil rights movement
- Civil rights and state takeovers : a diverse Oakland school board defeats an attempted state takeover in 1988
- Curriculum and structures : social studies textbooks, tracking, and other issues
- The "leave no teacher" laws : state and federal regulations mandating a "highly qualifed" teaching force actually create problems for urban communities
- Turning lemons into lemonade : the Partnership Program
- "Are you bilingual like me, Miss Johnson?" : Ebonics revisited
- Making a way out of no way : the struggle for academic quality
- Conclusions and programs.