An edition of The African American struggle for secondary schooling, 1940-1980: closing the graduation gap (2011)

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An edition of The African American struggle for secondary schooling, 1940-1980: closing the graduation gap (2011)

The African American struggle for secondary schooling, 1940-1980: closing the graduation gap

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This is the first comprehensive account of African American secondary education in the postwar era. Drawing on quantitative datasets, as well as oral history, this compelling narrative examines how African Americans narrowed the racial gap in high school completion. The authors explore regional variations in high school attendance across the United States and how intraracial factors affected attendance within racial groups. They also examine the larger social historical context, such as the national high school revolution, the civil rights movement, campaigns to expand schooling and urging youth to stay in school, and Black migration northward. Closing chapters focus on desegregation and the urban crisis of the 1960s and 1970s that accelerated white flight and funding problems for urban school systems. The conclusion summarizes these developments and briefly looks at the period since 1980, when secondary attainment levels stopped advancing for Blacks and Whites alike. From publisher description.

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Teachers College Press
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/languages/eng
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261

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Academic achievement, Education (Secondary), School integration, Segregation in education, Education, African Americans, African americans, education

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
371.829/96073
Library of Congress
LC2717 .R87 2011, LC2717 .R87 2012, LC2717.R87 2011

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
261

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24918197M
Internet Archive
africanamericans0000rury
ISBN 13
9780807752777, 9780807752784
LCCN
2011027417
OCLC/WorldCat
741751211

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OL16014661W

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