On equal terms : the constitutional politics of educational opportunity / Douglas S. Reed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reed, Douglas S., 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Right to education--United States.

Right to education.

Discrimination in education--United States.

Discrimination in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2001]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"On Equal Terms compares the relative success of school finance lawsuits to the project of school desegregation and explores how race and class present sharply different obstacles to courts. Since a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that effectively deferred to the states in the matter of educational equity, about a third of state judiciaries have mandated reform of state-level educational funding systems. Douglas Reed analyzes both the rhetoric of reform and the varying effects of these controversial decisions while critiquing the courts' failure to more clearly define educational equity."--Jacket.

"Since Brown v. Board of Education and the desegregation battles of the 1960s and 1970s, the legal pursuit of educational opportunity in the United States has been framed largely around race. But for nearly thirty years now, a less-noticed but controversial legal campaign has been afoot to equalize or improve the resources of poorly funded schools. This book examines both the consequences of efforts to use state constitutional provisions to reduce the "resource segregation" of American schools and the politics of the opposition to these decisions."

Contents:

Race, Class, And Educational Opportunity

Courts and Educational Opportunity: The Movement from Race to Class

The Judicial Impact on School Finance Reform

Race, Class, and the Limits of Justice

The Constitutional Ordering of Educational Opportunity

How Does a Constitution Mean? Constitutional Ordering and the Lessons of Educational Opportunity

A Bounded Ambition: The Judicial Ordering of Educational Opportunity

The Public's Opinion: Understanding Public Commitments toward Educational Opportunity

Regimes of Inequality: The Organization of Educational Politics

Conclusion: Constituting Education in America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691227733

069122773X

OCLC:

1273306619