| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Schools Betrayed: Roots of Failure in Inner-City Education. By Kathryn M. Neckerman. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xii, 260 pp. $29.00, ISBN 978-0-226-56960-4.)

What ails our urban public schools? In the late 1960s, as inner cities burned and their schools crumbled, a new generation of "radical revisionists" proposed an historic version of original sin: the schools were failing because they were never set up to succeed. Hardly the beacons of democracy and mobility that their founders imagined, schools were developed to discipline and manage an unruly labor force. Liberals rushed to the rescue of public education, noting its erstwhile popularity among immigrants, minorities, and white laborers. Our woes lay not in the distant past but in the sixties themselves, when a powder keg of forces—industrial decline, white flight, black militancy, and more—shattered America's urban schools.

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