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Almost fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At the heart of this inequality is a complex and often conflicted relationship between teachers and civil rights activists, examined fully for the first time in Jonna Perrillo's "Uncivil Rights", which traces the tensions between the two groups in New York City from the Great Depression to the present. While movements for teachers' rights and civil rights were not always in conflict, Perrillo uncovers the ways they have become so, brought about both by teachers who have come to see civil rights efforts as detracting from or competing with their own goals and by civil rights activists whose aims have deprofessionalized the role of the educator. Focusing in particular on unionized teachers, Perrillo finds a new vantage point from which to examine the relationship between school and community, showing how in this struggle, educators, activists, and especially our students have lost out.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political control & freedoms

• Full title: Uncivil Rights
• Subtitle: Teachers, Unions, and Race in the Battle for School Equity
• Author: Jonna Perrillo
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 280
• EAN: 9780226660714
• ISBN: 0226660710
• ID: 04548321
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 522 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. June 2012

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