Almost fifty years after"Brown v. Board of Education," a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At the heart of this inequality is a complex and often conflicted relationship between teachers and civil rights activists, examined fully for the first time in Jonna Perrillo s"Uncivil Rights," which traces the tensions between the two groups in New York City from the Great Depression to the present.While movements for teachers rights and civil rights were not always in conflict, Perrillo uncovers the waysthey have become so, brought about both by...
Almost fifty years after"Brown v. Board of Education," a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At ...
