Race, Equity, and Education - Sixty Years from Brown

This powerful and timely analysis takes stock of race and education sixty years after the historic Brown vs. Board of Education decision. This volume examines education as one of the most visible markers for racial disparities in the US as well as one of its most visible frontiers for racial justice. Featuring original research, educators' insights, and perspectives from communities of color, it documents the complex impact of social/educational policy on social progress.
Chapters on charter schools, curriculum content, performance measurement, and disproportionalities in special education referrals shed light on entrenched inequities that must be confronted. The book also makes it clear that leveling the playing field calls for not only better schools, but also addressing pervasive social problems such as poverty and housing segregation.
Included in the coverage:

• School Policy is Housing Policy: Deconcentrating Disadvantage to Address the Achievement Gap.
• Charter Schooling, Race Politics, and an Appeal to History.
  
• The Data Quality Movement for the Asian American and Pacific Islander community: an unresolved civil rights issue.
• Critical Ethnic Studies in High School Classrooms: Academic Achievement via Social Action.
• Mexican American Educational Stagnation: The Role of Generational Status, Parental Narratives and Educator Mes

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Pinpointing crucial issues and opportunities for solutions, Race, Equity, and Education has immediate salience for educators and researchers studying the intersection of race and education.

List of contents

Race, Education and the pursuit of social justice in America.- Kids, Kale and Concrete: Eco-Apartheid as a Fundamental Cause of the Opportunity Gap Plaguing Urban Youth.- School District Lines Straify Educational Opportunity by Race and Poverty.- Toward a critical pedagogy of race: Ethnic studies and literacies of power in high school classrooms.- Racial Disproptionality in Special Education.- Chapter Six.- The Racial Achievement Gap, Segregated Schools, and Segregated Neighborhoods - A Constitutional Insult.- Chapter Eight.- "There's nothing here for us:" Black youth migration to the New Promise Land.- Conclusion.

Product details

• Assisted by: Roey Ahram (Editor), Pedro Noguera (Editor), Jill Pierce (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.2015
• EAN: 9783319237718
• ISBN: 978-3-31-923771-8
• No. of pages: 297
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 23 mm x 247 mm
• Weight: 622 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 297 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Soziologie, B, Sozialwesen und soziale Dienste, Kommunal-, Regional- Landes und Lokalregierung, Bildungsstrategien und -politik, Educational Policy, Sociology of Education, Social Policy, Social Sciences, Social & ethical issues, Political Economy, Educational strategies & policy, Educational Policy and Politics, Education and state, Educational sociology, Education and sociology, Urban Teaching, Segregation in the 21st century, Unequal Education Opportunities, Urban Youth, School Choice