School Resegregation

Confronting a reality that many policy makers would prefer to ignore contributors to this volume offer the latest information on the trend toward the racial and socioeconomic resegregation of southern schools. In the region that has achieved more widespread public school integration than any other since 1970 resegregation combined with resource inequities and the current “accountability movement” is now bringing public education in the South to a critical crossroads.<br/><br/>In thirteen essays leading thinkers in the field of race and public education present not only the latest data and statistics on the trend toward resegregation but also legal and policy analysis of why these trends are accelerating how they are harmful and what can be done to counter them. What’s at stake is the quality of education available to both white and nonwhite students they argue. This volume will help educators policy makers and concerned citizens begin a much-needed dialogue about how America can best educate its increasingly multiethnic student population in the twenty-first century.<br/><br/>Contributors:<br/>Karen E. Banks Wake County Public School System Raleigh N.C.<br/>John Charles Boger University of North Carolina School of Law<br/>Erwin Chemerinsky Duke Law School<br/>Charles T. Clotfelter Duke University<br/>Susan Leigh Flinspach University of California Santa Cruz<br/>Erica Frankenberg Harvard Graduate School of Education<br/>Catherine E. Freeman U.S. Department of Education<br/>Jay P. Heubert Teachers College Columbia University<br/>Jennifer Jellison Holme University of California Los Angeles<br/>Michal Kurlaender Harvard Graduate School of Education<br/>Helen F. Ladd Duke University<br/>Luis M. Laosa Kingston N.J.<br/>Jacinta S. Ma U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission<br/>Roslyn Arlin Mickelson University of North Carolina at Charlotte<br/>Gary Orfield Harvard Graduate School of Education<br/>Gregory J. Palardy University of Georgia<br/>john a. powell Ohio State University<br/>Sean F. Reardon Stanford University<br/>Russell W. Rumberger University of California Santa Barbara<br/>Benjamin Scafidi Georgia State University<br/>David L. Sjoquist Georgia State University<br/>Jacob L. Vigdor Duke University<br/>Amy Stuart Wells Teachers College Columbia University<br/>John T. Yun University of California Santa Barbara