All things being equal : instigating opportunity in an inequitable time / edited by Brian D. Smedley and Alan Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smedley, Brian D.

Jenkins, Alan, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Economic conditions--2001-2009.

United States.

Economic conditions.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

Social conditions.

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

Minorities--United States--Economic conditions.

Minorities.

Immigrants--United States--Economic conditions.

Immigrants.

Equality--United States.

Equality.

Physical Description:

ix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press : Published in conjunction with The Opportunity Agenda : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 2007.

Contents:

Introduction: instigating opportunity in inequitable times / Alan Jenkins, Brian D. Smedley, and Bill Lann Lee

You can take it with you: income and wealth across generations / Jared Bernstein

Educational quality and equality : what it will take to leave no child behind / Linda Darling-Hammond

Connecting families to opportunity: the next generation of housing mobility policy / Philip Tegeler

Reducing incarceration to expand opportunity / Marc Mauer

Why health care equity is essential to opportunity-and how to get there / Brian D. Smedley

Measuring the extent and forms of discrimination in the marketplace: lessons from paired testing research / Margery Austin Turner and Carla Herbig

Finding America : creating educational opportunity for our newest citizens / Edward E. Telles and Vilma Ortiz

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-239).

ISBN:

9781595582102

159558210X

OCLC:

154309151