Unequal opportunity : a crisis in America's schools? /

Unequal opportunity : a crisis in America's schools? /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Mitchell, Bruce M.
Imprint:	Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 139 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Educational equalization -- United States. Discrimination in education -- United States. Children with social disabilities -- Education -- United States. Children with social disabilities -- Education. Discrimination in education. Educational equalization. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11125898

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Other authors / contributors:	Salsbury, Robert E.
ISBN:	0313011389 9780313011382 1280928107 9781280928109 089789720X 9780897897204 9786610928101 661092810X
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	This volume addresses issues of equal opportunity in education and quality of education. Interviews were conducted with a cross-section of Americans who responded to a questionnaire, and their responses are included and discussed in the book.
Other form:	Print version: Mitchell, Bruce M. Unequal opportunity. Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2002 089789720X

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
1. Early Beginnings of American Education
2. Who Are the Critics and Why?
3. Are Private Schools Really Better?
4. Gifted Education: an Elitist Practice?
5. Multicultural Education: an Antidote to Educational Inequality?
References
6. American Education and the Courts
7. If the Nation's Public School System Crumbles, So What?
8. A Blueprint for Saving the Public Schools
References
9. Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Authors