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Vaught, Sabina E. – SUNY Press, 2011
Racism and inequity in U.S. education are pervasive and consistent problems, unavoidable facts of public schooling in this country. This book is a multisite critical race ethnography of institutional relationships and organization in a large, urban, West Coast school district. In this daring and provocative work, Sabina E. Vaught examines the…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Racial Discrimination, Equal Education, Public Education
Allensworth, Elaine; Ponisciak, Stephen; Mazzeo, Christopher – Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2009
This report reveals that about 100 Chicago schools suffer from chronically high rates of teacher turnover, losing a quarter or more of their teaching staff every year, and many of these schools serve predominantly low-income African American children. In the typical Chicago elementary school, 51 percent of the teachers working in 2002 had left…
Descriptors: African American Children, High Schools, Elementary Schools, Teacher Persistence