All together now : creating middle-class schools through public school choice /
Annotation "In All Together Now, Richard D. Kahlenberg offers a provocative idea for improving public education: give every American child the right to attend a school in which the majority of students come from middle-class homes." "Kahlenberg combines Mann's nineteenth-century...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press
©2001.
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| Series: | Century Foundation Bks.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctvb6v7j5 |
Table of Contents:
- American schools today: falling short of our goals
- The case for economic school desegregation
- The significance of the socioeconomic makeup of schools
- The difficulty with alternatives to socioeconomic integration
- How socioeconomic integration can be achieved in practice
- Political and legal strategies
- Rebutting the case against socioeconomic integration
- Practical experience with socioeconomic integration.