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Title: Schools Betrayed: Roots of Failure in Inner-city Education

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Publication Year: 2007

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Abstract: Schools Betrayed is a history of inner-city schooling in northern U.S. cities between 1900 and 1960. Using both documentary and quantitative evidence, the book evaluates explanations for growing racial disparities in educational outcomes, including post-World War II economic and demographic change, racial discrimination in employment, and racial/ethnic culture, and contends that the problems of inner-city education cannot be understood without inquiry into the institutional development of urban education. The book uses Chicago as a case and, in order to highlight questions of race, compares the educational experiences of African Americans with southern and eastern European immigrant populations. It relies extensively on IPUMS data in order to document educational outcomes as well as economic strategies and the economic rewards of schooling.

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Authors: Neckerman, Kathryn M.

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Publisher Location: Chicago, IL

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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