When the fences come down : twenty-first-century lessons from metropolitan school desegregation / Genevieve Siegel-Hawley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siegel-Hawley, Genevieve, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School integration--Southern States--History--21st century.

School integration.

Education, Urban--Southern States--History--21st century.

Education, Urban.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work explores what happens when communities focus squarely on overcoming the educational divide between city and suburb. Based on evidence from metropolitan school desegregation efforts between 1990 and 2010, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley uses quantitative methods and innovative mapping tools to underscore the damages wrought by school-district boundary lines and to raise awareness about communities that have sought to counteract them.

Contents:

Introduction : metropolitan school desegregation, past and present

Background. Why boundary lines matter so much, and what we have done about them ; School policy is housing policy, and vice versa

Analysis. Divergent paths : school and housing desegregation in four southern cities ; Divergent outcomes : the contemporary relationship between school and housing segregation in four southern cities

Solutions. The choice conundrum : challenges and opportunities for voluntary school desegregation policy ; Education and the regional agenda

Afterword / with Gary Orfield.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on print record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908492-4-3

979-88-908492-5-0

1-4696-2785-X

OCLC:

945735778