Forced to Fail: The Paradox of School Desegregation

by Carl L. Bankston III and Stephen J. Caldas

Book Overview

Caldas and Bankston provide a critical, dispassionate analysis of why desegregation in the United States has failed to achieve the goal of providing equal educational opportunities for all students. They offer case histories through dozens of examples of failed desegregation plans from all over the country. The book takes a very broad perspective on race and education, situated in the larger context of the development of individual rights in Western...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275986934
• ISBN13: 9780275986933
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"