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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461258303321

Titolo

Integrating schools in a changing society [[electronic resource] ] : new policies and legal options for a multiracial generation / / edited by Erica Frankenberg and Elizabeth Debray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4696-0258-X

0-8078-6920-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FrankenbergErica

DebrayElizabeth H

Disciplina

370.1170973

Soggetti

School integration - United States

Discrimination in education - United States

Multicultural education - United States

Educational equalization - United States

Education and state - United States

Educational law and legislation - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Looking to the Future; Part I: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Now?; Standing at a Crossroads: The Future of Integrated Public Schooling in America; School Choice as a Civil Right: The Political Construction of a Claim and Its Implications for School Desegregation; Integration after Parents Involved: What Does Research Suggest about Available Options?; Advancing the Integration Agenda under the Obama Administration and Beyond; Part II: The Case for Integration

School Racial and Ethnic Composition and Young Children's Cognitive Development: Isolating Family, Neighborhood, and School InfluencesSouthern Graduates of School Desegregation: A Double Consciousness of Resegregation yet Hope; Legally Viable Desegregation Strategies: The Case of Connecticut; Regional Coalitions and Educational Policy: Lessons from the Nebraska Learning Community



Agreement; Part III: Student Assignment Policy Choices and Evidence; Socioeconomic School Integration: Preliminary Lessons from More Than 80 Districts

The Effects of Socioeconomic School Integration Policies on Racial School DesegregationIs Class Working? Socioeconomic Student Assignment Plans in Wake County, North Carolina, and Cambridge, Massachusetts; Using Geography to Further Racial Integration; Magnet Schools, MSAP, and New Opportunities to Promote Diversity; Part IV: The Pursuit of School-Level Equity; Resource Allocation Post-Parents Involved; Improving Teaching and Learning in Integrated Schools; Latinos, Language, and Segregation: Options for a More Integrated Future

Part V: Integrated Means toward Integrated Ends: Broadening Social PoliciesFederal Legislation to Promote Metropolitan Approaches to Educational and Housing Opportunity; Linking Housing and School Integration to Growth Management; Conclusion: Returning to First Principles; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--