Elusive Equity: Education Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa

by Edward Fiske, Jane Mallison, Dave Hatcher,, Edward B. Fiske, David Hatcher, et al.

Book Overview

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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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815728409
• ISBN13: 9780815728405
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"