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Five Miles Away, A World Apart - Two Schools, One City, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America (Hardcover)
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Five Miles Away, A World Apart - Two Schools, One City, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America (Hardcover)
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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.
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