Five Miles Away, A World Apart
One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 17 November 2011
- ISBN 9780199836857
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 161x233x26 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
James Ryan traces the fortunes of two schools in Richmond, Virginia--one suburban, relatively affluent, and mostly white, and the other urban, relatively poor, and mostly black. Drawing on compelling interviews with students, teachers, and principals, including one who has been a principal at both schools, 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.
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How is it that, half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, educational opportunities remain so unequal for black and white students, not to mention poor and wealthy ones?
In his important new book, Five Miles Away, A World Apart, James E. Ryan answers this question by tracing the fortunes of two schools in Richmond, Virginia--one in the city and the other in the suburbs. Ryan shows how court rulings in the 1970s, limiting the scope of desegregation, laid the groundwork for the sharp disparities between urban and suburban public schools that persist to this day. The Supreme Court, in accord with the wishes of the Nixon administration, allowed the suburbs to lock nonresidents out of their school systems. City schools, whose student bodies were becoming increasingly poor and black, simply received more funding, a measure that has proven largely ineffective, while the independence (and superiority) of suburban schools remained sacrosanct. Weaving together court opinions, social science research, and compelling interviews with students, teachers, and principals, Ryan explains why all the major education reforms since the 1970s--including school finance litigation, school choice, and the No Child Left Behind Act--have failed to bridge the gap between urban and suburban schools and have unintentionally entrenched segregation by race and class. As long as that segregation continues, Ryan forcefully argues, so too will educational inequality. Ryan closes by suggesting innovative ways to promote school integration, which would take advantage of unprecedented demographic shifts and an embrace of diversity among young adults.
Exhaustively researched and elegantly written by one of the nation's leading education law scholars, Five Miles Away, A World Apart ties together, like no other book, a half-century's worth of education law and politics into a coherent, if disturbing, whole. It will be of interest to anyone who has ever wondered why our schools are so unequal and whether there is anything to be done about it.
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 Freeman and Tee-Jay
Part One: Past: School Desegregations and Middle America
1. Buying Time
2. Don't Cross That Line
Part Two: Present: Save the Cities, Spare the Suburbs
3. Desegregating Dollars
4. Like a Russian Novel: School Finance Litigation in State Courts
5. Limited Choices
6. The Impact of Choice and the Role of Courts
7. Lowering the Bar: The Standards and Testing Movement
Part Three: Future: Demography Is Opportunity
8. In Search of Ties That Bind
Epilogue: Freeman and Tee-Jay Revisited
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