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04213aam a2200469 i 4500 001 2E0097140CF611EA99B9112E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191122010114 008 181008t20192019nyua e b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018040106 020 $a 1541672704 020 $a 9781541672703 035 $a (OCoLC)1048434259 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d RNL $d OHI $d YDX $d TCH $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a LC214.2 $b .J64 2019 100 1 $a Johnson, Rucker C., $e author. 245 10 $a Children of the dream : $b why school integration works / $c Rucker C. Johnson, with Alexander Nazaryan. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Basic Books, $c [2019. 300 $a xii, 320 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which declared the racial segregation of American schools unconstitutional, is universally understood as a landmark moment in our nation's history. Yet looking back from the present day, we judge the integrationist dream post-Brown as an utter failure, in the belief that it harmed students and deepened racial divisions in our society. Though integration efforts continued into the 1980s, reaching a highpoint in 1988, since then we've reverted to a situation in which segregation-no longer de jure, but de facto-prevails. In Children of the Dream, economist Rucker Johnson and Newsweek staff writer Alexander Nazaryan unearth the astonishing true story of integration in America. Drawing on immense longitudinal studies tracking the fates of thousands of individuals over the course of many decades, Johnson and Nazaryan reveal that integration not only worked, but worked spectacularly well. Children who attended integrated schools were far more successful in life than those who didn't-and this held true for children of all races and backgrounds. Indeed, Johnson and Nazaryan's research shows that well-funded, integrated schools were nothing less than the primary engine of social mobility in America across the 1970s and 1980s. Yet the experiment was all-too-brief, owing to a racial backlash and the unwillingness of even self-professed liberals to send their kids to integrated schools. As Johnson and Nazaryan argue, by allowing educational segregation and inequality to fester, we are doing damage to society as a whole. Explaining why integration worked, why it came up short, and how it can be revived, Children of the Dream offers a prescription for ending inequality and reviving the American Dream in our time"-- $c Provided by publisher. 500 $a "Co-published by the Russell Sage Foundation." 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: The dream deferred -- Forward march. Before Brown-and beyond -- The integrated classroom -- Equality promised, equality denied -- Getting ahead with Head Start -- Putting the pieces together -- The dream reversed. Busing in Boston: "We won't go to school with n-rs." -- How Charlotte (briefly) got it right -- The battle of Jefferson County -- Memphis City school blues -- Conclusion: Coming up together. 650 0 $a School integration $z United States. 650 0 $a Segregation in education $z United States. 650 0 $a Educational equalization $z United States. 650 7 $a Educational equalization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00903418 650 7 $a School integration. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01107474 650 7 $a Segregation in education. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01111221 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Local. $2 bisacsh 700 1 $a Nazaryan, Alexander, $e author. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Johnson, Rucker C. $t Children of the dream. $b First edition. $d New York : Basic Books, [2019] $z 9781541672697 $w (DLC) 2018060898 941 $a 2 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20200421011606.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20200318014011.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2E0097140CF611EA99B9112E97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search