Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side Tibetan Buddhism Cronon opens a new window

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* The Farthest Shore

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side Tibetan Buddhism Cronon opens a new windowFailing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools. Thats how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a mix of pity and contempt. But Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown