THE CHILDREN IN ROOM E4: AMERICAN EDUCATION ON TRIAL
Book ID/图书代码： 14560008B26800
English Summary/英文概要： In a country long divided by race and class, Susan Eaton set out to see if separate can ever really be equal. She immersed herself for four years in one of the best all-minority schools: Simpson-Waverly Elementary,which has been declared a Blue Ribbon school by the Bush Administration. Located in Hartford, Connecticut, the poorest city in the wealthiest state in the nation, it is a glaring example of the deepening educational disparity found across the country— in cities like Detroit, Miami, Newark, Providence, St. Louis,Milwaukee, and Fresno. In the style of a documentary filmmaker, Eaton follows Simpson-Waverly’s star student, his classmates, and their extraordinary teacher in a school that is racially isolated, overburdened, and cut off from mainstream society. She reveals the long odds against the success of even the brightest students and the way cities like Hartford have become ghetto-ized.
Meanwhile across town, Eaton follows an intrepid team of civil rights lawyers as they fight a legal battle to end the enduring segregation that beleaguers not only Simpson-Waverly but hundreds of other schools around the nation. In this groundbreaking account, Eaton goes inside the classroom and the courtroom to disclose the unsettling truths about an education system that is leaving millions of children behind.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 教育應該是基本權利，但不論在何處，總是有因資質上、經濟上或種族上的差異所導致資源分配不均問題。獲得2008年坎城影展金棕櫚獎，在2008金馬影展中受到許多好評、即將在台正式上映的《我和我的小鬼們》，描述一間巴黎的國中教室中老師與各族裔學生的精采互動，突顯公立學校與教育的困境。台灣的教育系統也存在各式分級制度與資源分配不均的問題。
作者Susan Eaton透過康乃狄克州最富裕的州中最貧困的學區的一間弱勢族群的學校Simpson-Waverly Elementary，凸顯教育體系中城市學校與經濟、種族隔離所造成教育資源不平等的常見問題。Simpson-Waverly Elementary被美國聯邦教育部選為全國辦學最成功學校之一。Susan Eaton在此學校觀察四年，她跟著Simpson-Waverly的明星學生Jeremy以及他的同學、老師。這些學生都是被主流社會所隔離。即使在「陋巷區隔」效應中的學區也會有優秀成功的學生。
Susan Eaton透過在E4教室中的這群學生的故事，揭露教育制度中的弔詭與缺失，原先應是平等的公民權利，卻存在這麼多的不正義!!(VC)
Awards/获奖情况：自2007年出版至今，已4刷，2007 GUSTAVUS MYERS BOOK AWARDS HONORABLE MENTION，《歐普拉雜誌》、《出版人週刊》、《芝加哥論壇報》…等眾多佳評，知名教育研究者Jonathan Kozol盛讚 Starred Review. The separate but equal doctrine may have been repudiated by the Supreme Court, but as Eaton cogently demonstrates in this stirring and sobering account of the school system in inner-city Hartford, Conn., major educational inequality still exists in many inner-city schools. Eaton chronicles the progress of Sheff v. O’Neill, a case brought against the state in 1989, charging that school districts in Hartford and its environs were rigidly drawn to ensure segregation of poor and minority students. By encapsulating these students in racially isolated, underfunded schools, the state has created a self-perpetuating cycle of poverty and substandard academic achievement. A graceful and fluent writer, Eaton reviews the circumstances in which local and state politics allowed this situation to arise and worsen over time. She follows the inception and progress of the court case, creating suspense about its outcome. (Though the case was decided in favor of the plaintiffs, appeals are still pending after 18 years, since the state has failed to meet its mandated goals.) As long as there is racial isolation, Eaton convincingly demonstrates, schools will not improve and students will be denied the chance to learn at the same rate as their suburban neighbors, thereby impeding their chances to improve their lives and their futures. By bringing this situation to light, she has significantly articulated the problems that challenge politicians, school boards and concerned citizens. (Jan. 19) ---From Publishers Weekly
"Compelling....Vivid."---Chicago Tribune (Chicago Tribune )
"Powerful. . . . Eaton’s book makes a stirring companion to Jonathan Kozol’s The Shame of a Nation."---New York Newsday (Newsday )
"Riveting."---O: The Oprah Magazine (O, the Oprah magazine )
"Susan Eaton zeroes in on the barely acknowledged reality of modern-day school segregation--It is the visionary Ms. Luddy and the kids like Jeremy Otero, with his bubbly, brave-hearted intelligence, who give this book its urgent warmth." ---《歐普拉雜誌》 (O. the Oprah Magazine )
"[Eaton] has written a book that goes to the heart of who we are as a nation, of what we mean when we ask our children to pledge allegiance to the flag of ’one nation, indivisible.’"---The Boston Globe (Boston Globe
"Timely and important...The author’s rendering of courtroom scenes or pre-trial strategy meetings gains the page-turning momentum of a legal thriller..."---Washington Post
"Powerful....Eaton’s book makes a stirring companion to Jonathan Kozol’s ’The Shame of a Nation.’" ---New York Newsday
About the Author/作者介绍： Susan Eaton, an award-winning journalist specializing in education, is the research director at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard, where she received her doctorate in education policy. Susan Eaton is the author, most recently, of The Other Boston Busing Story (Yale). She is also the co-author, with Gary Orfield, of Dismantling Desegregation (New Press).
Susan Eaton得獎記者，也是哈佛Charles Hamilton Houston種族與社會正義研究機構的研究主任（Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard），關注因各項原因導致受教機會不平等與歧視等議題，尤其是城市的貧民學區。曾在美國、南美與日本等地進行研究、授課。著有《The Other Boston Busing Story: What’s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line (Yale, 2001)》。
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