Author:
Rury, John L., 1951-
Imprint:New York : Teachers College Press, c2012.
Descriptionix, 261 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction: Racial convergence in secondary school attainment -- Setting attainment in context -- Improving black secondary education -- Moving to opportunity, and to crisis -- Building toward the future -- Plan of the book -- Expanding access. The south in the 1940s. Stark inequity : the rural countryside -- A shaky foundation : elementary education -- Making the best of hard times -- City schools -- Accreditation struggles -- Struggling against a legacy of inequity -- Sea change : "equalization" and secondary schooling. Race, education, and regional development -- Mounting restiveness -- Shifting social and political conditions -- A new day for high schools -- Rising levels of attainment -- A grassroots movement -- The good black high school -- White resistance and black skepticism : the limits of reform -- Building a foundation for the future -- Inequity, discrimination, and growth outside the south, 1940-1960. Blacks and secondary school attainment in 1940 -- Going to high school in the north and west, 1940 -- Racial conflict in high schools -- In search of tolerance -- Segregated secondary schooling, north and west -- Parsing the academic layer cake -- Black secondary school attainment in 1960 -- Growing attainment and persistent inequality.Fighting for equality. Black youth and the urban crisis. A changing urban scene -- Discovery of the "dropout" -- Continuing progress in attainment -- Learning under difficult circumstances -- Serving the "disadvantaged" -- An era of conflict and protest -- Coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s -- Battling segregation. Integration in the 1940s and 1950s -- Changing high schools in Kansas City -- Desegregation and protest across the north -- Pyrrhic victory in the south -- Integration and student conflict -- Inequity within the schools -- Trial by fire -- Conclusion. The African American high school experience in perspective. The high school in the history of Black education -- High schools and social status -- Dilemmas of integration -- A legacy of protest -- The elusive goal of equality -- The imperative of educational change -- Appendixes. A. Oral history interviews and other sources of information -- B. Logistic regression analysis of secondary school attainment.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-250) and index.
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