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Elusive Equity - Education Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Paperback)
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Elusive Equity - Education Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Paperback)
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Elusive Equity chronicles South Africa's efforts to fashion a
racially equitable state education system from the ashes of
apartheid. The policymakers who came to power with Nelson Mandela
in 1994 inherited and education system designed to further the
racist goals of apartheid. Their massive challenge was to transform
that system, which lavished human and financial resources on
schools serving white students while systematically starving those
serving African, coloured, and Indian learners, into one that would
offer quality education to all persons, regardless of their race.
Edward Fiske and Helen Ladd describe and evaluate the strategies
that South Africa pursued in its quest for racial equity. They draw
on previously unpublished data, interviews with key officials, and
visits to dozens of schools to describe the changes made in school
finance, teacher assignment policies, governance, curriculum,
higher education, and other areas. They conclude that the country
has made remarkable progress toward equity in the sense of equal
treatment of persons of all races. For several reasons, however,
the country has been far less successful in promoting equal
educational opportunity or educational adequacy. Thus equity has
remained elusive. The book is unique in combining the perceptive
observations of a skilled education journalist with the analytical
skills of an academic policy expert. Richly textured descriptions
of how South Africa's education reforms have affected schools at
the grass-roots level are combined with careful analysis of
enrollment, governance, and budget data at the school, provincial,
and national levels. The result is a compelling and comprehensive
study of South Africa's first decade of education reform in the
post-apartheid period.
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