Monitoring Educational Equity

The challenge of monitoring disparities in educational achievement and opportunities shares some characteristics with other complex regulatory problems. For example, when Congress adopted the Clean Air Act (1970) nearly 50 years ago, it emphasized the importance of public health but provided no clear line for distinguishing clean air from dirty air. Most fundamentally, regulating pollution has required choices about what indicates that air is "polluted" for regulatory purposes, how to measure and monitor those indicators, and when the measured level of an indicator should trigger enforcement or other intervention. The statute provided few answers, or even a definitive list of "pollutants" to be regulated. Nor were there definitive answers in the Constitution, economics, the biological sciences, or epidemiology. Instead, definitions and decisions have been a continuous enterprise involving interpretations of vague statutory language, promulgation of hundreds of federal and state regulations, enforcement experience, research in multiple disciplines, and the turbulence of politics.

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• Authors: Board On Testing And Assessment, Committee on Developing Indicators of Educational Equity, Committee On National Statistics, Division Of Behavioral And Social Scienc, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri, National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
• Assisted by: Constance Citro (Editor), Edley Christopher Jr (Editor), Judith Koenig (Editor), Natalie Nielsen (Editor)
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780309490160
• ISBN: 978-0-309-49016-0
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science