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Integration interrupted [electronic resource] : tracking, black students, and acting White after Brown / Karolyn Tyson.

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There is lots of popular and scholarly concern today about why African American students aren't doing better in school. Instead of looking at the students, Tyson argues that when and where students understand race to be connected with achievement, it is a powerful, if indirect, lesson conveyed...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Oxford Scholarship Online)
Main Author: Tyson, Karolyn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
African Americans > Education.
African Americans > Education > Social aspects.
African American students > Social conditions.
African American students > Ethnic identity.
School integration > United States.
Track system (Education) > United States.
Academic achievement > United States.
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Summary:There is lots of popular and scholarly concern today about why African American students aren't doing better in school. Instead of looking at the students, Tyson argues that when and where students understand race to be connected with achievement, it is a powerful, if indirect, lesson conveyed by schools.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 222 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199943951 (ebook)
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199736447.001.0001
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Description based on print version record.

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