Race, Class, and Education: The Politics of Second-Generation Discrimination

by Kenneth J. Meier

Book Overview

While most school systems have undergone some formal desegregation to eliminate inequities in access to education, inequities--and discrimination--nonetheless remain. In this study covering 170 major school districts during the years between 1968 and 1984, the authors discuss the remaining obstacles to equal opportunity in education.
Clustering of students into separate classes or groups of classes based on perceived learning potential is one...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029912214X
• ISBN13: 9780299122140
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"