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336 pages; 6 x 9 inches

Eroding Commitment?

by Faustine Childress Jones

In The Changing Mood in America: Eroding Commitment, educational policy expert Faustine Childress Jones examines the social climate in the United States between 1969 and 1977 to determine whether societal commitment to equal opportunity for blacks and other minorities and the poor is eroding. Gunn­ar Myrdal’s classic work, An American Dilemma, provides a conceptual framework for her discussion, which also looks at changes in the attitudes and perceptions of the nation’s black population.  Jones maintains that shifts that have negatively affected educational policy have occurred in all three branches of the federal government, and she shows how and why these changes have come about. She concludes by offering recommendations that call for a shifting of the national mood, away from the divisiveness of spirit that currently plagues U.S. society and toward a positive concern for the collective well-being of all Americans and especially those who have yet to attain all the benefits of the American Dream.

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