A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (545 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826513891 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Board of Education, the United States still has a long way to go to attain true integration of our educational system. Fifty years after Brown v. Strong supporters of the dream of integration, Bankston and Caldas show that the practical difficulty with desegregation is that academic environments are created by all the students in a school from the backgrounds that all the students bring with them. Unfortunately, the disadvantages that minority children have to overcome affect schools more than schools can help remedy these disadvantages.. Using extensive interviews and a wealth of statistical information, Bankston and Caldas examine the failed desegregation efforts in Louisiana as a case study to show how desegregation has followed the same unsuccessful pattern across the United States
He has authored or co-authored numerous articles on school achievement and is currently associate professor in the department of educational foundations and leadership at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. Caldas has been a public school teacher and worked as the psychometrician for the Louisiana Departmen
This troubling book is must reading for federal judges, lawyers and any other citizens purporting to have a serious, selfless interest in Civil Rights. --Louisiana HistoryWinner, Louisiana Literary Award 2003
"Hard, objective look at the damage of forced desegregation." according to David C Prejean. This is an excellent book which documents the effects of forced desegegation. By tracing the history of segregation in Louisiana and then focusing on three parishes (counties) in different stages of forced desegregation, the authors highlight the negative effects of this misguided p