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Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: James E. Ryan
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-06 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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How is it that, half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, educational opportunities remain so unequal for black and white students, not to mention poor
Five Miles Away, A World Apart
Language: en
Pages: 399
Authors: James Edward Ryan
Categories: Education
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The Color of Their Skin
Language: en
Pages: 168
Authors: Robert A. Pratt
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-03-29 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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A major study of school desegregation in a Virginia locality, The Color of Their Skin traces the evolution of Richmond public schools from segregation to desegr
Other People’s Words
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Victoria Purcell-Gates
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-03-25 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Literacy researchers have rarely studied families of urban Appalachian background, yet, as Purcell-Gates demonstrates, their often severe literacy problems prov
A World Apart
Language: en
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Authors: Cristina Rathbone
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-18 - Publisher: Random House

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“Life in a women’s prison is full of surprises,” writes Cristina Rathbone in her landmark account of life at MCI-Framingham. And so it is. After two inten