The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (814 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1565126173 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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With our nation's urban schools growing more segregated every year, Susan Eaton set out to see whether separate can ever really be equal. An award-winning journalist, Eaton spent four years at Simpson-Waverly Elementary School, an all-minority school in Hartford, Connecticut. Luddy's star student, Jeremy, and his fellow classmates face tremendous challenges both inside and outside of a school cut off from mainstream America.Meanwhile, across town, a team of civil rights lawyers fight an intrepid battle to end the de facto segregation that beleaguers Jeremy's school and hundreds of others across America.From inside the classroom and the courtroom, Eaton reveals the unsettling truths about an education system that leaves millions of children behind and gives voice to those who strive against overwhelming odds for a better future.. In the midst of Band-Aid reforms and hotshot superintenden
A graceful and fluent writer, Eaton reviews the circumstances in which local and state politics allowed this situation to arise and worsen over time. (Though the case was decided in favor of the plaintiffs, appeals are still pending after 18 years, since the state has failed to meet its mandated goals.) As long as there is racial isolation, Eaton convincingly demonstrates, schools will not improve and students will be denied the chance to learn at the same rate as their suburban neighbors, thereby impeding their chances to improve their lives and the
A great read for anyone entering the field of school administration Gustave B. Afantchao A great read for anyone entering the field of school administration in the US. This book explains the demographic shifts undergone by the city of Hartford (CT) and how the desegregation of schools promised under Brown v. board of education in 1954 never fully materialized. In some cases however, the gains achieved under Brown v. board of education were gradually rolled back due to suburbanization and the resulting ghettoization of urban centers and their pub. jsanfili1 said Children in eChildren in e4 Review jsanfili1 The Children in E4 was an extremely informative book. Eaton takes the reader to understanding a whole other level of segregation and the politics that seem to be ongoing in the education system. This book made me have a realistic perspective on inner city schools, like those in Hartford. Throughout the book we see the struggles students in these schools go through. The corrupted home-life, stress of state testing, and the challenges teachers face to keep stu. Review. The Children in EChildren in e4 Review jsanfili1 The Children in E4 was an extremely informative book. Eaton takes the reader to understanding a whole other level of segregation and the politics that seem to be ongoing in the education system. This book made me have a realistic perspective on inner city schools, like those in Hartford. Throughout the book we see the struggles students in these schools go through. The corrupted home-life, stress of state testing, and the challenges teachers face to keep stu. was an extremely informative book. Eaton takes the reader to understanding a whole other level of segregation and the politics that seem to be ongoing in the education system. This book made me have a realistic perspective on inner city schools, like those in Hartford. Throughout the book we see the struggles students in these schools go through. The corrupted home-life, stress of state testing, and the challenges teachers face to keep stu. sturgesa said An important book for public education. Susan Eaton takes an exhaustive look at a specific public educational system in Hartford, CT. Her time was spent was in schools and classrooms looking at the delivery of education taking place in a high poverty, low achieving district in the midst of a high stakes testing situation.Like many districts across the country, Hartford was desperately searching for an answer to AYP and this led to some dismal answers on how children should be educated. Teachers be