Confronting Suburban School Resegregation in California - Couverture rigide

Hurd, Clayton A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0812246349 ISBN 13 : 9780812246346

Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014

Synopsis

The school-aged population of the United States has become more racially and ethnically diverse in recent decades, but its public schools have become significantly less integrated. In California, nearly half of the state's Latino youth attend intensely-segregated minority schools. Apart from shifts in law and educational policy at the federal level, this gradual resegregation is propelled in part by grassroots efforts led predominantly by white, middle-class residential communities that campaign to reorganize districts and establish ethnically separate neighborhood schools. Despite protests that such campaigns are not racially, culturally, or socioeconomically motivated, the outcomes of these efforts are often the increased isolation of Latino students in high-poverty schools with fewer resources, less experienced teachers, and fewer social networks that cross lines of racial, class, and ethnic difference.

Confronting Suburban School Resegregation in California investigates the struggles in a central California school district, where a predominantly white residential community recently undertook a decade-long campaign to secede from an increasingly Latino-attended school district. Drawing on years of ethnographic research, Clayton A. Hurd explores the core issues at stake in resegregation campaigns as well as the resistance against them mobilized by the working-class Latino community. From the emotionally charged narratives of local students, parents, teachers, school administrators, and community activists emerges a compelling portrait of competing visions for equitable and quality education, shared control, and social and racial justice.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Clayton A. Hurd is Director of Public Service Research at the Haas Center for Public Service and lecturer in the Program on Urban Studies at Stanford University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0812246349
• ISBN 13: 9780812246346
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible