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(0)Peter Schrag
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Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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"As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's 1964 desegregation decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the United States is still struggling to close the wide gap that separates the achievement of African American and Latino from white and Asian students. For the past half-century, reformers have wielded a range of strategies including desegregation, compensatory education, curricular reforms, and attempts to equalize funding....
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Language
English
Description
In a compelling approach to storytelling, When Europe Was a Prison Camp weaves together two accounts of a family's eventual escape from Occupied Europe. One, a memoir written by the father in 1941, the other, begun by the son in the 1980s, fills in the story of himself and his mother, supplemented by historical research. The result is both personal and provocative, involving as it does issues of history and memory, fiction and "truth," courage and...
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