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Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
School Desegregation and Resegregation in Charlotte
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eBook - ePub
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
School Desegregation and Resegregation in Charlotte
About this book
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow provides 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 contributors—historians, sociologists, economists, and education scholars—the 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 landmark Swann desegregation 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 the Swanncase, 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.
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 the Swanncase, 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.
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Yes, you can access Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow by Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Stephen Samuel Smith, Amy Hawn Nelson, Roslyn Arlin Mickelson,Stephen Samuel Smith,Amy Hawn Nelson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Education General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Map of Mecklenburg County
- Preface
- 1. Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Structure and Agency in the Resegregation of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
- 2. The Price of Success: The Political Economy of Education, Desegregation, and Development in Charlotte
- 3. A Spirit of Togetherness: Desegregation and Community at West Charlotte High School
- 4. “Academic Genocide” on the West Side: West Charlotte High School in the Post-Swann Era
- 5. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in Context: Racial and Economic Imbalance at the District and State Level, 1994–2012
- 6. A Study in Contrasts: Race, Politics, and School Assignment Policies in Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Wake County, North Carolina
- 7. Residential Choice as School Choice: The Impact of Unitary Status in Charlotte-Mecklenburg
- 8. From Black and White to Technicolor: Demographic Change in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
- 9. A Long Path to Success: Integration and Community Engagement at Shamrock Gardens Elementary School
- 10. The Law’s Delay: Pursuing School Diversity and Equity in Leandro’s Shadow
- 11. Obligation and Opportunity: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Face the Future
- Appendix A. Terminology
- Appendix B. List of Supplementary Materials
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Index