By James Deneen,Carmen Catanese
Early chapters record the two-tiered personality of yank public colleges, the tragic effects of failing faculties for hundreds of thousands of students—mostly Black and Hispanic—and the monetary bills to American society.
In later chapters, Deneen and Catanese describe the designated difficulties of inner-city colleges and the adjustments at school association and curriculum had to conquer them. additionally they supply examples of faculties in seriously deprived groups during which such adjustments have enabled scholars to be triumphant academically, graduate, and input college.
In the ultimate chapters, the authors research the general public and personal university strategies to be had to city mom and dad. They speak about college selection, a hotly debated factor in city education.
The publication concludes with a plan, including six suggestions, for reforming a failing city school.
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