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School Desegregation Plans That Work

Name: School Desegregation Plans That Work
Author: Charles V. Willie
ISBN: 9780313240515

by Charles V. Willie

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"School Desegregation Plans That Work can serve as an excellent planning guide for school districts that must formulate and implement a desegregation plan. Willie not only reviews the general history of desegregation and the litigation that brought it about, but he also provides reviews of desegregation efforts in four cities--Boston, Milwaukee, Seattle, and Atlanta. ... These case studies are highly credible, because these sections of the book were written by personnel from the school districts involved. Chapter 5 is the best discussion of desegregation at the local level that [the reviewer has] encountered anywhere. ... Disagree with Wille's thesis and his emphases if you will. But, if you are concerned with urban education, be sure to read this book."-Phi Delta Kappan

?School Desegregation Plans That Work can serve as an excellent planning guide for school districts that must formulate and implement a desegregation plan. Willie not only reviews the general history of desegregation and the litigation that brought it about, but he also provides reviews of desegregation efforts in four cities--Boston, Milwaukee, Seattle, and Atlanta. ... These case studies are highly credible, because these sections of the book were written by personnel from the school districts involved. Chapter 5 is the best discussion of desegregation at the local level that [the reviewer has] encountered anywhere. ... Disagree with Wille's thesis and his emphases if you will. But, if you are concerned with urban education, be sure to read this book.?-Phi Delta Kappan

About the Author

has served as professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and as vice president of Syracuse University. / Since 1974, he has been a faculty member of Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. A former president of Eastern Sociological Society, he has been a member of the Council of the American Sociological Association and of the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council.