An edition of Divided we fail (2012)

Divided we fail

the story of an African American community that ended the era of school desegregation

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An edition of Divided we fail (2012)

Divided we fail

the story of an African American community that ended the era of school desegregation

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This work examines why school desegregation, despite its success in closing the achievement gap, was never embraced wholeheartedly in the black community as a remedy for racial inequality. In 2007, a court case originally filed in Louisville, Kentucky, was argued before the Supreme Court and officially ended the era of school desegregation, changing how schools across America handle race and undermining the most important civil rights cases of the last century. This was not the first federal lawsuit that challenged school desegregation, but it was the first, and only one brought by African Americans. In this examination of the Louisville case, the author, a journalist returns to her hometown to understand why black families in the most racially integrated school system in America led the charge against desegregation.

Weaving together the voices of parents, students, and teachers who fought for and against desegregation, her narrative upends assumptions about the history of busing and its aftermath. Desegregation corresponded with unprecedented gains in black achievement and economic progress, but in Louisville, those gains often came at a cost: traditionally black schools that had been bastions of community identity and pride faced closure; hundreds of black teachers lost their jobs; parents were helpless as their children's futures were dictated by racial quotas. In illuminating the often overlooked human stories behind this fraught legal struggle, the author reveals the difficult compromises forced on the black community in the wake of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. This book is an account of one community's struggle that has important lessons for the next generation of education reformers.

By taking a close look at where desegregation went wrong, the author uncovers problems with a new set of education ideas, including school choice, charter schools, and test-based accountability systems. But she also reminds us not to forget desegregation's many successes as we look for ways to close the achievement gap for minority students.

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Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Pages
239

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Table of Contents

The letters
Our beloved Central high
With our own
The numbers game
The lawsuit
To the Supreme Court.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Boston, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
344.73/0798
Library of Congress
KF229 .G37 2012, KF229.G37 2012, KF229.P37 G37 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
239

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25377097M
Internet Archive
dividedwefailsto0000garl
ISBN 13
9780807001776
LCCN
2012027732
OCLC/WorldCat
793578916

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