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CAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS SAVE AMERICA?: Culture, Race, Academic Achievement, and the American Dream

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2005

James D. Anderson
James D. Anderson
Affiliation:
Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Pedro A. Noguera,City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 2003, 187 pages, ISBN: 0-8077-4382-8, Cloth, $50.00, and 0-8077-4381-X, Paper, $19.95.

Jennifer Hochschild and Nathan Scoveronick.The American Dream and the Public Schools. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, 301 pages, ISBN: 0-19-515278-6, Cloth, $35.00.

David Tyack,Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003, 237 pages, ISBN: 0-674-01198-8, Cloth, $22.95.

Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom,No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003, 334 pages, ISBN: 0-7432-0446-8, Cloth, $26.00, and 0-7432-6522-X, Paper, $15.00.

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STATE OF THE DISCOURSE
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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 127 - 136
Copyright
© 2005 W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research

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