The African American struggle for secondary schooling, 1940-1980 : closing the graduation gap by Rury, John L., 1951-, Hill, Shirley A. (Shirley Ann), 1947- instant download

The African American struggle for secondary schooling, 1940-1980 : closing the graduation gap by Rury, John L., 1951-, Hill, Shirley A. (Shirley Ann), 1947- instant download

ix, 261 pages : 23 cm, This is the first comprehensive account of African American secondary education in the postwar era. Drawing on quantitative datasets, as well as oral history, this compelling narrative examines how African Americans narrowed the racial gap in high school completion. The authors explore regional variations in high school attendance across the United States and how intraracial factors affected attendance within racial groups. They also examine the larger social historical context, such as the national high school revolution, the civil rights movement, campaigns to expand schooling and urging youth to stay in school, and Black migration northward. Closing chapters focus on desegregation and the urban crisis of the 1960s and 1970s that accelerated white flight and funding problems for urban school systems. The conclusion summarizes these developments and briefly looks at the period since 1980, when secondary attainment levels stopped advancing for Blacks and Whites alike. From publisher description, Includes bibliographical references and indexes, Introduction: Racial convergence in secondary school attainment -- Setting attainment in context -- Improving black secondary education -- Moving to opportunity, and to crisis -- Building toward the future -- Plan of the book -- Expanding access. The south in the 1940s. Stark inequity : the rural countryside -- A shaky foundation : elementary education -- Making the best of hard times -- City schools -- Accreditation struggles -- Struggling against a legacy of inequity -- Sea change : \"equalization\" and secondary schooling. Race, education, and regional development -- Mounting restiveness -- Shifting social and political conditions -- A new day for high schools -- Rising levels of attainment -- A grassroots movement -- The good black high school -- White resistance and black skepticism : the limits of reform -- Building a foundation for the future -- Inequity, discrimination, and growth outside the…