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Sto caricando le informazioni... Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger: School Segregation in Rochester, New Yorkdi Justin Murphy
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"This book chronicles school desegregation in Rochester, NY. It examines in detail the Civil Rights era fight to desegregate Rochester schools and reviews the various attempts in the last fifty years at metropolitan-level solutions to Rochester's educational ills. Ultimately it brings the historical narrative to the present day, illustrating the flaws inherent in the school reform model that has dominated national education policy for nearly forty years."-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)371.01097471Social sciences Education Teachers, Methods, and DisciplineClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Murphy writes of the 1960s turmoil in Rochester, “Underlying all the segregation-related tumult of the 1960s in Rochester and other northern cities, was a significant, long-unchallenged assumption about the historical record leading to school segregation. Integration foes insisted repeatedly that racial imbalance derived wholly from discrimination in housing an not al all from particular actions on the part of schools… Throughout the 1960s and beyond, the key question was not whether RCSD bore blame for racial imbalance in its schools, but how much responsibility it had to proactively overturn residential patterns in its placement procedures” (pg. 94). While proactive efforts to create more integrated schools were beneficial to Black students, white parents vociferously fought against them both in legal assaults and in physical violence (pgs. 115, 133). The pushback from white parents scuttled any attempts at meaningful, significant integration efforts.
In a hypothetical argument, Murphy discusses how a system like BOCES could be expanded to encompass the entire county, helping to distribute the work toward desegregation while better allocating resources for special education and technical training (pg. 165). While some have proposed such an idea, it never gained significant support, especially once suburban districts decided to support their local tax base and later financially gain through support of limited urban-suburban programs (pg. 196).
Murphy’s study challenges common assumptions about education in Rochester, offering a road-map for those who would take steps to desegregate and improve students’ experiences. One only hopes that sufficient parents, administrators, and politicians will realize the worth of his work and make the hard choices to secure a better future. ( )