Five Miles Away, A World Apart
Two Schools, One City, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 August 2010
- ISBN 9780195327380
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 163x242x31 mm
- Weight 712 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 black and white halftone illustration 0
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Long description:
How is it that half a century after Brown v. Board of Education--and in spite of increased funding for urban schools and programs like No Child Left Behind--educational opportunities for blacks and whites in America still remain so unequal?
In Five Miles Away, A World Apart, James Ryan provides a sobering answer to this question by tracing the fortunes of two schools in Richmond, Virginia--one suburban, relatively affluent, and mostly white, and the other urban, relatively poor, and mostly black. Ryan shows how court rulings against desegregation in the 1970s laid the groundwork for the massive disparities between urban and suburban public school districts that persist to this day. The Nixon administration, intent on shoring up its base in the "silent majority," allowed suburbs to lock nonresidents out of their school systems. Urban schools, whose student bodies were becoming increasingly poor and black, simply received more funding, a panacea that has proven largely ineffective, while the academic independence (and superiority) of suburban schools was held sacrosanct. Drawing on compelling interviews with students, teachers, and principals, including one who has been a principal at both schools featured in the book, Ryan explains how certain policies--school finance, school choice, and standardized testing--not only fail to bridge the performance gap between students at urban and suburban schools but actually perpetuate segregation across the country. Ryan closes by suggesting innovative reforms that would bring greater diversity into our schools by shifting the emphasis from racial to socioeconomic integration.
An incisive critique of exactly how and why our educational policies have gone wrong, Five Miles Away, A World Apart will interest all those who wish to see our educational system heal the divide between rich and poor and live up to our highest democratic ideals.
Anyone looking to understand the 'lay of the land' in kindergarten-through-12th-grade education should look no further than James Ryan's outstanding 'Five Miles Away, A World Apart' . . . Mr. Ryan's book is both sweeping and accessible.
Table of Contents:
Introduction Five Miles Away, A World Apart
Why Didn't Richmond Ever Desegregate?
From Consolidation to Reparation
Desegregating Dollars
Limited Choices
Lowering the Bar: The Standards and Testing Movement
In Search of Ties That Bind
Conclusion Freeman and TJ Revisited
Five Miles Away, A World Apart: Two Schools, One City, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America
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