The End of Consensus: Diversity, Neighborhoods, and the Politics of Public School Assignments

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Probably the most nation’s fastest growing metropolitan areas, Wake County, North Carolina, added more than a quarter million new residents all through the first decade of this century, an increase of almost 45 percent. At the same time, partisanship more and more dominated local politics, including school board races. Against this backdrop, Toby Parcel and Andrew Taylor believe the ways diversity and neighborhood schools have influenced school assignment policies in Wake County, particularly all through 2000-2012, when these policies became controversial in the neighborhood and a subject matter of national attention. The End of Consensus explores the odd transformation of Wake County all through this period, revealing inextricable links between population growth, political ideology, and controversial K–12 education policies.

Drawing on media coverage, in-depth interviews with community leaders, and responses from center of attention groups, Parcel and Taylor’s innovative work combines insights from these sources with findings from a survey of 1,700 county residents. The use of a broad range of materials and methods, the authors have produced the definitive story of politics and change in public school assignments in Wake County even as demonstrating the importance of these dynamics to cities across the country.

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