Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side

by Eve L. Ewing

Book Overview

"Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools."

That's how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a mix of pity and contempt.

But Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022652602X
• ISBN13: 9780226526027
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"