''Ethnically Qualified''

Author: Christina Collins
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0807751634

''Ethnically Qualified'': Race, Merit, and the Selection of Urban Teachers, 1920 - 1980

Why did the New York City school district once have the lowest ratio of minority teachers to minority students of any large urban school system in the country? Using an array of historical sources, this provocative book explores the barriers that African American and Latino candidates faced in attempting to become public school teachers in New York from the turn of the century through the end of the 1970s. Download ''Ethnically Qualified'': Race, Merit, and the Selection of Urban Teachers, 1920 - 1980 from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Christina Collins argues that no single institution or policy was to blame for the city's low numbers of non-white educators during this period. Instead, she concludes in this deeply researched book that it was the cumulative effect of discriminatory practices across an entire system of teacher training and selection that created New York's Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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