This book provides a historical overview of public education and the multiple iterations it has gone through since the days of Brown v Board of Education. It looks at today's most compelling issues of systemic racism, classism, political ignorance and arrogance, as well as the failures of the family to be active partners in the education of their children. This book contains research-based information that would be useful to educators, students of pedagogy and practice, and school administrators. It explores the fate of the African American student from the days of desegregation through today's perceived achievement gap.
