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Our cities are rife with inequality, and our schools are the petri dishes in which this injustice is bred and reinforced. Ansley Erickson s ambitious book makes a broad, detailed, and damning argument about the inextricable interrelatedness of school policies and the persistence of metropolitan-scale inequality. While many accounts of education in urban and metropolitan contexts describe schools as the victims of forces beyond their control, Erickson shows the many ways in which schools have been intertwined with these ...
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Our cities are rife with inequality, and our schools are the petri dishes in which this injustice is bred and reinforced. Ansley Erickson s ambitious book makes a broad, detailed, and damning argument about the inextricable interrelatedness of school policies and the persistence of metropolitan-scale inequality. While many accounts of education in urban and metropolitan contexts describe schools as the victims of forces beyond their control, Erickson shows the many ways in which schools have been intertwined with these forces and have in fact via land-use decisions, curriculums, and other tools helped sustain inequality. In the case of Nashville, the focus of Erickson s study, such inequality persisted in the face of statistically successful desegregation policies."
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