Author: Citizens League (Minneapolis, Minn). Committee on School DesegregationPublisher:
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Category : Educational equalization
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Linking a Commitment to Desegregation with Choices for Quality Schools
Author: Citizens League (Minneapolis, Minn). Committee on School DesegregationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational equalization
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Interest Groups and Education Reform
Author: Veronica Donahue DiContiPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761804352
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
During the 1980s, the education policy agenda proceeded from a consensus reached by politicians, the business community and educators to restructure the nation's public schools as a way to improve student achievement. This book begins with a critical examination of the impact of interest groups on American education since the inception of the first school system. Two restructuring proposals became extremely popular in the reform debate but stemmed from different premises about the best way to restructure the schools. The first, Public School Choice, centers on the idea that students should have the right to exit their assigned schools and attend a school of their choice. Schools would then be forced to improve because they would have to compete in the marketplace of students. The second proposal, School-Based Management, looks at the merits of strengthening the mechanism of voice for parents, students and teachers in the management of their neighborhood school. Those involved in the education process assess the needs, resources and development of local schools. Through two case studies, Minnesota and Baltimore City, the efforts and intentions of reformers demonstrate the abiility of interest groups to capture and define the purpose of a public institution at the state and local level.
The Involvement and Perceived Impact of the Citizens League on Minnesota State School Policymaking, 1969-1984
Author: Patricia McGinnis WilhelmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Focus on Learning: Findings
Author: Minnesota. Governor's Task Force on Educational PolicyPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Rethinking School Choice
Author: Jeffrey R. HenigPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400821037
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Advocates of school vouchers and other choice proposals couch their arguments in the fashionable language of economic theory. Choice initiatives at all levels of government have succeeded, it is claimed, because they shift responsibility for education reform from government to market forces. This timely book disputes the appropriateness of the market metaphor as a guide to education policy.
Because That's where the Money is
Author: Children of the Dream
Author: Rucker C. JohnsonPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541672690
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
An acclaimed economist reveals that school integration efforts in the 1970s and 1980s were overwhelmingly successful -- and argues that we must renew our commitment to integration for the sake of all Americans We are frequently told that school integration was a social experiment doomed from the start. But as Rucker C. Johnson demonstrates in Children of the Dream, it was, in fact, a spectacular achievement. Drawing on longitudinal studies going back to the 1960s, he shows that students who attended integrated and well-funded schools were more successful in life than those who did not -- and this held true for children of all races. Yet as a society we have given up on integration. Since the high point of integration in 1988, we have regressed and segregation again prevails. Contending that integrated, well-funded schools are the primary engine of social mobility, Children of the Dream offers a radical new take on social policy. It is essential reading in our divided times.
Integrating Schools in a Changing Society
Author: Erica FrankenbergPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807835129
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
"In this comprehensive volume, a roster of leading scholars in educational policy and related fields offer eighteen essays seeking to illuminate new ways for American public education to counter persistent racial and socioeconomic inequality in our society. Drawing on extensive research, the contributors reinforce the key benefits of racially integrated schools, examine remaining options to pursue multiracial integration, and discuss case examples that suggest how to build support for those efforts"--
Index to Current Urban Documents
Author: Divided We Fail
Author: Sarah GarlandPublisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807001783
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Examines why school desegregation, despite its success in closing the achievement gap, was never embraced wholeheartedly in the black community as a remedy for racial inequality In 2007, a court case originally filed in Louisville, Kentucky, was argued before the Supreme Court and officially ended the era of school desegregation— both changing how schools across America handle race and undermining the most important civil rights cases of the last century. Of course, this wasn’t the first federal lawsuit to challenge school desegregation. But it was the first—and only—one brought by African Americans. In Divided We Fail, journalist Sarah Garland deftly and sensitively tells the stories of the families and individuals who fought for and against desegregation. By reframing how we commonly understand race, education, and the history of desegregation, this timely and deeply relevant book will be an important contribution to the continued struggle toward true racial equality.