Children of the dream : why school integration works
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New York : Basic Books, 2019.
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9781541672703, 1541672704
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Published
New York : Basic Books, 2019.
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Book
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xii, 320 pages : illustrations, charts, map ; 25 cm
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English
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9781541672703, 1541672704

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"Co-published by the Russell Sage Foundation."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"The Supreme Court's decision in Brown 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. In Children of the Dream, economist Rucker Johnson and Newsweek staff writer Alexander Nazaryan unearth 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 and Nazaryan reveal 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 and Nazaryan'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 and Nazaryan argue, 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"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Johnson, R. C., & Nazaryan, A. (2019). Children of the dream: why school integration works (First edition.). Basic Books.

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Johnson, Rucker C. and Alexander, Nazaryan. 2019. Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works. Basic Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Johnson, Rucker C. and Alexander, Nazaryan. Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works Basic Books, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Johnson, Rucker C.,, and Alexander Nazaryan. Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works First edition., Basic Books, 2019.

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