Over a decade ago, the first edition of City Schools and the American Dream debuted just as reformers were gearing up to make sweeping changes in urban educatio
The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, v
The ideology of the American dream--the faith that an individual can attain success and virtue through strenuous effort--is the very soul of the American nation
Despite the overwhelming evidence against them, many people still believe they can overcome the economic and racial constraints placed upon them at birth. In th
With the Common Core poised to markedly amplify the accountability stakes in public education, the pressure to post steep outcomes gains has never been fiercer.