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The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

Hardcover • 2006 • English

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Since the early 1980s, when the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, segregation of black children has reverted to its highest level since 1968. In many inner-city schools, a stick-and-carrot method of behavioral control traditionally used in prisons is now used with students. Meanwhile, as high-stakes testing takes on pathological and punitive dimensions, liberal education has been increasingly replaced by culturally barren and robotic methods of ...Show more

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9781400052455

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

Format

Hardcover

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