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Elusive Equity

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Elusive Equity

By Edward B. Fiske, Helen F. Ladd

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Elusive Equity chronicles South Africa's efforts to fashion a racially equitable state education system from the ashes of apartheid. The policymakers who came to power with Nelson Mandela in 1994 inherited and education system designed to further the racist goals of apartheid. Their massive challenge was to transform that system, which lavished human and financial resources on schools serving white students while systematically starving those serving African, coloured, and Indian learners, into ...Show more

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9780815733393

Publisher

Brookings Institution

Published year

2017

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1

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Elusive Equity

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Paperback

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