Three to Get Ready: The Education of a White Family in Inner City Schools

by Lois Mark Stalvey

How do our schools take bright, active, ordinary children, who happen to be poor and black, and turn them into ill-educated and violent delinquents? Lois Stalvey's book will show you how it is done. In 1962, the Stalveys, a middle-class white family, moved from Omaha to an integrated urban neighborhood in Philadelphia, where the three children enrolled in public schools. For twelve years, Lois Stalvey watched her children and their predominantly African...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299153940
• ISBN13: 9780299153946
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"