The End of Consensus: Diversity, Neighborhoods, and the Politics of Public School Assignments

by Toby L. Parcel and Andrew J. Taylor

Book Overview

One of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas, Wake County, North Carolina, added more than a quarter million new residents during the first decade of this century, an increase of almost 45 percent. At the same time, partisanship increasingly dominated local politics, including school board races. Against this backdrop, Toby Parcel and Andrew Taylor consider the ways diversity and neighborhood schools have influenced school assignment policies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469622548
• ISBN13: 9781469622545
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"