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Hope and despair in the American city : why there are no bad schools in Raleigh / Gerald Grant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grant, Gerald.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School improvement programs--North Carolina--Raleigh--Case studies.
- School improvement programs.
- Urban schools--United States--Case studies.
- Urban schools.
- Urban renewal--United States--Case studies.
- Urban renewal.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Hope and Despair, Gerald Grant compares two cities - his hometown of Syracuse, New York, and Raleigh, North Carolina - in order to examine the consequences of the nation's ongoing educational inequities. The result is an ambitious portrait - sometimes disturbing, often inspiring - of two cities that exemplify our nation's greatest educational challenges, as well as a passionate exploration of the potential for school reform that exists for our urban schools today.
- Contents:
- What happened to American cities?
- Can this neighborhood be saved?
- Three reconstructions of Raleigh
- There are no bad schools in Raleigh
- A tragic decision
- What should we hope for?.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674264038
- 0674264037
- 9780674053922
- 0674053923
- OCLC:
- 648759733
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