A Review of “Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education; More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City”

Gaston Alonso, Noel S. Anderson, Celina Su, and Jeanne Theoharis. New York University Press, New York, 2009. 289 pages. $22 (paperback); William Julius Wilson. W. W. Norton, New York, 2010. 190 pages. $15.95 (paperback)

Sheryl-Ann Simpson Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University

William W. Goldsmith Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University

"A Review of “Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education; More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City”." Journal of the American Planning Association, 77(1), pp. 94–95

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A Review of “Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education; More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City”

Gaston Alonso, Noel S. Anderson, Celina Su, and Jeanne Theoharis. New York University Press, New York, 2009. 289 pages. $22 (paperback); William Julius Wilson. W. W. Norton, New York, 2010. 190 pages. $15.95 (paperback)

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