Still Failing

Stephen J. Caldas has published many articles and books on school desegregation. He also publishes in the area of bilingual education. He currently teaches quantitative research methodology and education policy at Manhattanville College in New York. Carl L. Bankston III is an American sociologist and author. He is best known for his work on immigration to the United States, particularly on the adaptation of Vietnamese-American immigrants, and for his work on ethnicity, social capital, sociology of religion, and the sociology of eduction.

This book includes an analysis of the most significant Supreme Court cases that have been decided in the ten years since the first edition of the book appeared. The authors consider the important implications of these recent rulings for the future of school desegregation in America's schools.

Contents Chapter 1 - School Desegregation: Irrelevant Public Policy? The Continuing Racial and Socioeconomic Segregation of American Schools Resegregation by the Numbers Failure of Will or Failure of Command and Control? Redistributing Children's "Social Capital" The Fallacy of "Diversity" Unintended Consequences A Noble, Misguided Vision Blinders of Moral Commitment Chapter 2 - How Did We Get Here? The Long Legal Road The Genesis of Civil Rights The Paradox of Slavery in Free Market Society Reconstruction and the Origins of "Affirmative" Protection of Group Rights Retreat from Reconstruction and the Protection of Group Rights Plessy v. Ferguson and "Separate but Equal" The Era of Jim Crow and American "Apartheid" Black Grass Roots Resistance to "Separate but Equal" The Earthquake of Brown I Grass Roots Civil Rights Struggle A Return to Reconstruction The Desegregation Battle Intensifies A Sea Change of Civil Rights Freedom of Choice "Affirmative" Action Maximum Federal Involvement Chapter 3-Desegregation Expansion-and Limits Setting Limits Unitary Status and the End of Oversight The Diversity Doctrine and Supreme Court Schizophrenia The Future of Desegregation Litigation Chapter 4 - The Demographic Transformation of America A Changing Society Family Structure Demographic Change: New Student Populations Hispanic Explosion The Asian Advantage The Problem of Poverty Demographics and School Desegregation Chapter 5 - It takes "a certain" Kind of Village to Raise a Child What is Social Capital? Families, Schools and Communities: Social Capital and School Environments Social Capital in Child and Parent Interactions Social Capital in Parent-to-Parent Interactions Social Capital in Parent and School Interactions Social Capital in Student-to-Student Interactions The Power of School Peer Cultures Chapter 6 - The Power of School Peers and the Power of Community The Positive Power of Peers Disruptive School Climates Schools and the Creation of Community Social Capital Desegregation and the Destruction of Community Social Capital Understanding the Importance of Community Chapter 7 - School Desegregation and the Racial Achievement Gap A Controversial Topic Is There Really a Gap? The SAT/ACT Gap The High School Gap The Higher Ed Gap Why the Continuing Gap? The Origins of the Black-White Gap History of Racial Oppression as Cause of the Black/White Achievement Gap Environmental Hazards and Educational Achievement School Curriculum Stereotype Threat Why the Need for School Racial Integration? Do Blacks Achieve Better in Majority White Schools? Is White Achievement Hurt in Majority Black Schools? Are Standardized Tests Culturally Biased Against Minorities? The Stubborn Gap How Can We Close the Gap? Chapter 8 - A New Perspective of Race and Schooling: Attaining the Dream New Paradigms Resistance Socioeconomic Integration Strategies that Work Neighborhood Schools Strengthening Communities Public Support for Public Education Local Control in Minority Communities Approach Reforms with Caution and Limited Expectations Let Schools Be Schools