When the Fences Come Down
Twenty-First-Century Lessons from Metropolitan School Desegregation
Genevieve Siegel-Hawley
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 04/2016
Pages: 236
Subject: Education, Social Science
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Print ISBN: 9780000000000
eBook ISBN: 9781469627854
DESCRIPTION
Based on evidence from metropolitan school desegregation efforts in Richmond, Virginia; Louisville, Kentucky; Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina; and Chattanooga, Tennessee, between 1990 and 2010, Siegel-Hawley uses quantitative methods and innovative mapping tools both to underscore the damages wrought by school-district boundary lines and to raise awareness about communities that have sought to counteract them. She shows that city-suburban school desegregation policy is related to clear, measurable progress on both school and housing desegregation. Revisiting educational policies that in many cases were abruptly halted--or never begun--this book will spur an open conversation about the creation of the healthy, integrated schools and communities critical to our multiracial future.