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Children of the Dream - Why School Integration Works (Hardcover)
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Children of the Dream - Why School Integration Works (Hardcover)
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The Supreme Court's decision in Broad v. Board of Education in
1954, which declared the racial segregation of American schools
unconstitutional, is universally understood as a landmark moment in
our nation's history. Yet looking back from the present day, we
judge the integrationist dream post-Brown as an utter failure, in
the belief that it harmed students and deepened racial divisions in
our society. Though integration efforts continued into the 1980s,
reaching a highpoint in 1988, since then we've reverted to a
situation in which segregation-no longer de jure, but de
facto-prevails. Was integration a social experiment doomed from the
start? In Children of the Dream, economist Rucker Johnson unearths
the astonishing true story of integration in America. Drawing on
immense longitudinal studies tracking the fates of thousands of
individuals over the course of many decades, Johnson reveals that
integration not only worked, but worked spectacularly well.
Children who attended integrated schools were far more successful
in life than those who didn't-and this held true for children of
all races and backgrounds. Indeed, Johnson's research shows that
well-funded, integrated schools were nothing less than the primary
engine of social mobility in America across the 1970s and 1980s.
Yet the experiment was all-too-brief, owing to a racial backlash
and the unwillingness of even self-professed liberals to send their
kids to integrated schools. As Johnson argues, by allowing
educational segregation and inequality to fester, we are doing
damage to society as a whole. Explaining why integration worked,
why it came up short, and how it can be revived, Children of the
Dream offers a prescription for ending inequality and reviving the
American Dream in our time.
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