Amanda E Lewis, John B Diamond

Despite the Best Intentions

How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780195342727
• ISBN-10: 0195342720
• Artikelnr.: 47868881

Autorenporträt

John Diamond is the Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Education. Amanda Lewis is an associate professor of sociology at Emory University.

Inhaltsangabe

* PREFACE
* CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION
* CHAPTER 2 - RACE, OPPOSITIONAL CULTURE, AND SCHOOL OUTCOMES: ARE WE
BARKING
* UP THE WRONG TREE?
* CHAPTER 3 - THE ROAD TO DETENTION IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS: RACE
AND
* DISCIPLINE AT RIVERVIEW
* CHAPTER 4 - "IT'S LIKE TWO HIGH SCHOOLS: " RACE, TRACKING, AND
PERFORMANCE
* EXPECTATIONS
* CHAPTER 5 - OPPORTUNITY HOARDING: CREATING AND MAINTAINING RACIAL
ADVANTAGE
* CHAPTER 6 - CONCLUSION
* APPENDIX A
* REFERENCES