Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (eBook)

School Desegregation and Resegregation in Charlotte

Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Stephen Samuel Smith, Amy Hawn Nelson (Herausgeber)

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2017
272 Seiten
Harvard Education Press (Verlag)
978-1-61250-758-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book provides a compelling analysis of the forces and choices that have shaped the trend towards resegregation in public schools by examining Charlotte, North Carolina’s trajectory from model city to abject lesson.

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Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrowprovides a compelling analysis of the forces and choices that have shaped the trend toward the resegregation of public schools. By assembling a wide range of contributorshistorians, sociologists, economists, and education scholarsthe editors provide a comprehensive view of a community's experience with desegregation and economic development. Here we see resegregation through the lens of Charlotte, North Carolina, once a national model of successful desegregation, and home of the landmarkSwanndesegregation case, which gave rise to school busing.This book recounts the last forty years of Charlotte's desegregation and resegregation, putting education reform in political and economic context. Within a decade of theSwanncase, the district had developed one of the nation's most successful desegregation plans, measured by racial balance and improved academic outcomes for both black and white students. However, beginning in the 1990s, this plan was gradually dismantled. Today, the level of resegregation in Charlotte has almost returned to what it was prior to 1971. At the core of Charlotte's story is the relationship between social structure and human agency, with an emphasis on how yesterday's decisions and actions define today's choices.

Autor

Roslyn Arlin Mickelson is a professor of sociology, public policy, and women’s and gender studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Stephen Samuel Smith is a professor of political science at Winthrop University. Amy Hawn Nelson is the director of research for the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute and the director of the Institute for Social Capital, Inc.

Inhalt

ContentsMap of Mecklenburg County viiPreface ixCHAPTER 1Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Structure and Agency in the Resegregation of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools 1 Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Stephen Samuel Smith, and Amy Hawn Nelson CHAPTER 2The Price of Success The Political Economy of Education, Desegregation, and Development in Charlotte 17 Stephen Samuel Smith CHAPTER 3A Spirit of Togetherness Desegregation and Community at West Charlotte High School 39 Pamela Grundy CHAPTER 4“Academic Genocide” on the West Side West Charlotte High School in the Post-Swann Era 53 Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Stephen Samuel Smith, Stephanie Southworth, and S. Lore´n Trull CHAPTER 5Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in Context Racial and Economic Imbalance at the District and State Level, 1994–2012 69 Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L. VigdorCHAPTER 6A Study in Contrasts Race, Politics, and School Assignment Policies in Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Wake County, North Carolina 85 Toby L. Parcel, Joshua A. Hendrix, and Andrew J. TaylorCHAPTER 7Residential Choice as School Choice The Impact of Unitary Status in Charlotte-Mecklenburg 101 David Liebowitz and Lindsay C. Page CHAPTER 8From Black and White to Technicolor Demographic Change in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools 119 Michelle Plaisance, Elizabeth Morrell, and Paul McDaniel CHAPTER 9A Long Path to Success Integration and Community Engagement at Shamrock Gardens Elementary School 137 Amy Hawn Nelson CHAPTER 10The Law’s Delay Pursuing School Diversity and Equity in Leandro’s Shadow 157 Mark Dorosin and Luke Largess CHAPTER 11Obligation and Opportunity Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Face the Future 173 Stephen Samuel Smith, Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, and Amy Hawn Nelson APPENDIX ATerminology 203 APPENDIX bList of Supplementary Materials 207Notes 209 Acknowledgments 241 About the Editors 243 About the Contributors 245  Index 249

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.11.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Charter Schools • education reform • English as a Second Language programs • No Child Left Behind • Race relations • racial balance • school integration • Segregation in education
• ISBN-10: 1-61250-758-1 / 1612507581
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61250-758-3 / 9781612507583