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Our promise : achieving educational equality for America's children : selected essays and articles / [edited by] Maurice R. Dyson, Daniel B. Weddle.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational equalization--United States.
- Educational equalization.
- United States.
- Discrimination in education--United States.
- Discrimination in education.
- United States. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 631 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Desegregation and the struggle for equal schooling: rolling the rock of Sisyphus / Molly Townes O'Brien
- When government is a passive participant in private discrimination : a critical look at White privilege and the tacit return to interposition in PICS v. Seattle School District / Maurice R. Dyson
- De facto segregation and group blindness : proposals for narrow tailoring under a new viable state interest in PICS v. Seattle School District / Maurice R. Dyson
- Fiscal inequity and resegregation : two pressing mutual concerns of K-12 education and higher education / William A. Kaplin
- The NCLB, race, ethnicity, class and diversity : promoting a high school to law/graduate school pipeline for under-represented students / Jodie Roure
- The Black divide on affirmative action / Angela Onwuachi-Willig
- The No Child Left Behind Act and the birth of race-conscious school finance litigation / Preston C. Green III & Bruce D. Baker, and Joseph O. Oluwole
- School finance litigation : beyond equality / Victoria Dodd
- Closing the door on public school integration : parents involved and the Supreme Court's continued neglect of adequacy concerns / Osamudia R. James
- No Child Left Behind : creating and sustaining a two-tiered system of education for the nation's youth / Anita Kuykendall Stoll
- Accountability charter schools / Danielle Holley-Walker
- Reform or retrenchment? : single-sex education and the construction of race and gender / Verna L. Williams
- Constitutional remedies for Latino educational neglect / Lupe S. Salinas
- Untold stories : college persistence for first-generation students: family roots of inspiration and burden to accomplish the family dream / Kate Bueler
- My only ticket to a better tomorrow : immigrant and refugee student determinants and strategies to academic success in American schools / Jerono Phyllis Rotich
- A coordinated public response to school bullying / Douglas E. Abrams
- Brutality and blindness : bullying in schools and negligent supervision by school officials / Daniel Weddle
- The new IDEA : shifting educational paradigms to achieve racial equality in special education / Robert A. Garda Jr.
- Achieving the promise : the significant role of highly qualified teachers in transforming children's mental health in America / Deanne Lechtenberger & Frank Mullins
- Voices from the bottom of the well : No Child Left Behind and the allegory of equitable education as a gateway to crime and delinquency / Geneva Brown & Susan Stuart
- Ability grouping and tracking and No Child Left Behind : stratification in the accountability era / Donna M. Harris
- Examining the connection of NCLB to educational equity : smaller learning communities (SLC) program / Na'im H. Madyun & Moosung Lee
- Compromising curricula : inequity in literacy instruction / Caitlin McMunn Dooley & Lori Czop Assaf
- Increasing the school year for some, but not all, children : barriers to extending the school year / Len Biernat.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594601279
- 1594601275
- OCLC:
- 265077336
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