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The United States Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision, Brown v Board of Education, set into motion a process of desegregation that would transform American public schools. This book provides an assessment of how Brown's most visible effect, contact between students of different racial groups, has changed over the fifty years since the decision.

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Since the early 1980s, the rapidly increasing cost of college, together with what many see as inadequate attention to teaching, has elicited a barrage of protest. Buying the Best looks at the realities behind these criticisms--at the economic factors that are in fact driving the institutions that have been described as machines without brakes. In d

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