The end of consensus : diversity, neighborhoods, and the politics of public school assignments / Toby L. Parcel and Andrew J. Taylor, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Edition
First edition
Published
Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Preface and plan of the book -- Acknowledgments -- Assigning children to public schools -- The Wake County public school system : a social and political history -- A focus of conflict i: Wake schools? general student assignment policy -- A focus of conflict ii: annual student reassignments -- A focus of conflict iii: year-round schools -- The great split: election 2009 and its aftermath -- Is Wake different? -- An epilogue and conclusion -- Methodological appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary
One of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas, Wake County, North Carolina, added more than a quarter million new residents during the first decade of this century, an increase of almost 45 percent. At the same time, partisanship increasingly dominated local politics, including school board races. Against this backdrop, this book considers the ways diversity and neighborhood schools have influenced school assignment policies in Wake County, particularly during 2000-2012, when these policies became controversial locally and a topic of national attention
