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A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana
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by Carl L. Bankston and Stephen J. Caldas
Sales Rank: 1157839
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List Price: $24.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 288 pages
Published by: Vanderbilt University Press March 2002
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0826513891
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0826513892
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
Book Description
Despite decades of effort to reverse such trends, disproportionate numbers of African American students continue to grow up in poverty, in single-parent households, raised by adults with limited education and skills--characteristics that are widely acknowledged as detrimental to academic success. The attempt to improve academic performance by merely rearranging the racial mix through desegregation has proven to be an overly simplistic and inadequate means of providing disadvantaged children with the skills and support they so desperately need. In fact, it appears that coercive desegregation efforts have actually caused school systems to re-segregate, by driving out large numbers of middle class white students.
Using extensive interviews and a wealth of statistical information, Bankston and Caldas examine the failed desegregation efforts in Louisiana as a case study to show how desegregation has followed the same unsuccessful pattern across the United States. Strong supporters of the dream of integration, Bankston and Caldas show that the practical difficulty with desegregation is that academic environments are created by all the students in a school from the backgrounds that all the students bring with them. Unfortunately, the disadvantages that minority children have to overcome affect schools more than schools can help remedy these disadvantages.
About The Author
Carl L. Bankston III is an associate professor of sociology at Tulane University and co-author of the prize-winning Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States. Stephen J. Caldas has been a public school teacher and worked as the psychometrician for the Louisiana Department of Education. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles on school achievement and is currently associate professor in the department of educational foundations and leadership at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana (Hardcover)
This is an excellent book which documents the effects of forced desegegation. By tracing the history of segregation in Louisiana and then focusing on three parishes (counties) in different stages of forced desegregation, the authors highlight the negative effects of this misguided policy. What is unbelievable is that judges are still advocating busing when the authors have clearly demonstrated the negative effects, not only for the majority white students, but ultimately, for the black students as well.
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