Schools Betrayed: Roots of Failure in Inner-City Education

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The problems usually associated with inner-city schools weren’t nearly as pervasive a century ago, when black children in most northern cities attended school alongside white children. In Schools Betrayed, her innovative history of race and urban education, Kathryn M. Neckerman tells the story of how and why these schools came to serve black children such a lot worse than their white counterparts.

Focusing on Chicago public schools between 1900 and 1960, Neckerman compares the circumstances of blacks and white immigrants, groups that had in a similar way little wealth and status yet came to gain vastly different benefits from their education. Their divergent educational outcomes, she contends, stemmed from Chicago officials’ decision to care for rising African American migration by segregating schools and denying black students equal resources. And it deepened, she shows, on account of techniques for managing academic failure that only reinforced inequality. In the long run, these tactics eroded the legitimacy of the schools in Chicago’s black community, leaving educators unable to assist their most disadvantaged students.

Schools Betrayed will probably be required reading for any individual who cares about urban education.


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