Black Education: A Quest for Equity and Excellence

ISBN 10: 0887387810 / ISBN 13: 9780887387814

Published by Routledge, 1989

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Black Education: A Quest for Equity and Excellence
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887387810
• ISBN 13: 9780887387814
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

This highly focused collection of papers, commissioned by the National Urban League, offers a candid and courageous portrait of black education in transition. This is a period, as the editors note in their opening remarks, that is characterized by a huge shift from federal responsibility for minority education to authority and autonomy being lodged at the local government level. Further, many institutions that once worked well, no longer do so. Many ambitious social programs and policies that originally promised much, have been abandoned, have failed, or just faded away. Pivotal to these times and changes is the question of the extent to which the American educational system has been, or still is, capable of being responsive to incorporating and even instigating equity and excellence for black Americans. This volume asks the hard questions: is the educational system geared up for the maintenance of anything other than mainstream values? can it adapt to minority youth requirements? when, why, and how do educational policies of majorities and minorities clash? How are priorities to be established―on the basis of wealth or need? The legal statutes and administrative enforcement of equal educational opportunities are explored in depth and with a deep compassion for all parties involved.

About the Author

Willy DeMarcell Smith