Hope and Despair in the American City : : Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh /

Hope and Despair in the American City : : Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh / / Gerald Grant.

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In Hope and Despair, Gerald Grant compares two cities - his hometown of Syracuse, New York, and Raleigh, North Carolina - in order to examine the consequences of the nation's ongoing educational inequities. The result is an ambitious portrait - sometimes disturbing, often inspiring - of two cit...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Grant, Gerald,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©2011
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. What Happened to America's Cities?
  • 2 Can This Neighborhood Be Saved?
  • 3. Three Reconstructions of Raleigh
  • 4. There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh
  • 5. A Tragic Decision
  • 6. What Should We Hope For?
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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