Research Catalog

Title

Brown v. Board of Education : the challenge for today's schools / Ellen Condliffe Lagemann and LaMar P. Miller, editors.

Publication

New York : Teachers College Press, c1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe, 1945-
• Miller, LaMar P.

Description

vi, 217 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Special issues from the Teachers College record

Uniform Title

Special issues from the Teachers College record

Alternative Title

Brown versus Board of Education

Subject

• Brown, Oliver, 1918- > History
• Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 > History
• Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education > History
• Segregation in education > History > United States

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "Originally published in Teachers College record, v. 96, no. 4, summer 1995"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• An American dilemma still / Ellen Condliffe Lagemann -- Tracking the progress of Brown / LaMar P. Miller -- Dream deferred but not defeated / Roger Wilkins -- The unending struggle for equal educational opportunity / Robert L. Carter -- The federal government and the promise of Brown / Brian K. Landsberg -- The legacy of Brown v. Board of Education / Constance Baker Motley -- Revisiting the Supreme Court's opinion in Brown v. Board of Education from a multiculturalist perspective / Kevin Brown -- Public opinion and school desegregation / Gary Orfield -- Diversity and the new immigrants / LaMar P. Miller, Lisa A. Tanners -- Two cities' tracking and within-school segregation / Jeannie Oakes -- Reexamining social science research on school desegregation : long- versus short-term effects / Amy Stuart Wells -- Reflections on the promise of Brown and multicultural education / Carl A. Grant.
• Inequalities in educational financing / Howard A. Glickstein -- Race and choice in Montgomery County, Maryland, magnet schools / Jeffrey R. Henig -- The false premises and false promises of the movement to privatize public education / Willis D. Hawley -- After forty years : the other half of the puzzle / John A. Murphy -- The promise of accountability and standards in the achievement of equal educational opportunity / Edmund W. Gordon -- Fulfulling the promise of Brown / Judith A. Winston -- Educational equity issues in an information age / Dennis Sayers -- Brown and Lau : seeking the common ground / Rosa Castro Feinberg -- Of promises and visions : Brown as a gift to American democracy / Joshua P. Bogin -- Brown at fifty : six visions / Burt Neuborne.

ISBN

0807735248 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^95042631^

OCLC

• 33403814
• SCSB-9974307

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library