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Author Lit, Ira W.

Title The bus kids / Ira W. Lit
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 211 pages)
Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- ONE: Beginnings -- TWO: The Canford Program -- THREE: The Bus Kids -- FOUR: Friends -- FIVE: The Obstacle Course of Schooling -- SIX: Leopards and Chameleons -- SEVEN: The Grown-Ups -- EIGHT: Teaching Styles -- NINE: The Road Ahead -- Appendix: Notes on Method -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V
Summary This text offers a detailed examination of the experiences of kindergarten students in California participating in a voluntary school desegregation programme. Ira Lit focuses on the school life of a group of minority children bussed from their poor-performing home school district to an affluent district with high-performing schools
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject School integration -- California -- Case studies
Kindergarten -- California -- Case studies
Minorities -- Education -- California -- Case studies
Kindergarten.
Minorities -- Education.
School integration.
California.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300153279
0300153279