Not exact matches
Here the race issue is
brought to the forefront: two
upper - class
white liberals find their own progressive values challenged when their daughter returns home from a ten - day Hawaiian vacation with a black fiancé in tow.
It isn't clear what drove these principals to reject the
white,
upper - middle - class parents and their attempts to
bring resources to the schools.
In Saving Schools, I
bring together insights from the work of a number of talented black scholars, who have tried to figure out why the black -
white education gap was not closed by the well - integrated schools of Shaker Heights, Ohio, an
upper - middle - class suburb close to Cleveland.
We also
brought more personality and interest to the room by painting our remaining
upper cabinets
white and the lowers a charcoal gray.