1.

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"--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910467475903321

Autore

Koltai Steven  R.

Titolo

Peace through entrepreneurship : investing in a startup culture for security and development / / Steven R. Koltai with Matthew Muspratt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : Brookings Institution Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8157-2924-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 pages)

Disciplina

338/.04

Soggetti

Entrepreneurship - Social aspects

Economic development - Social aspects

Security, International

Entrepreneurship - Developing countries

Peace-building - Developing countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Joblessness is the root cause of the global unrest threatening American security. Fostering entrepreneurship is the remedy.  The combined weight of American diplomacy and military power cannot end unrest and extremism in the Middle East and other troubled regions of the world, Steven Koltai argues. Could an alternative approach work? Koltai says yes: by investing in entrepreneurship, and reaping the benefits of the jobs created through entrepreneurial startups.  From 9/11 and the Arab Spring to the self-proclaimed Islamic caliphate, instability and terror breed where young men cannot find jobs. Koltai marshals evidence to show that joblessness - not religious or cultural conflict - is the root cause of the unrest that vexes American foreign policy and threatens international security.  Drawing on Koltai's stint as Senior Adviser for Entrepreneurship in Secretary Hillary Clinton's State Department, and his thirty-year career as a successful entrepreneur and business executive, World Peace through Entrepreneurship argues



for the significant elevation of entrepreneurship in the service of foreign policy. This entrepreneurship is not rural microfinance or mercantile trading. It is the scalable stuff of Silicon Valley and Sam Walton, generating the vast majority of new jobs in economies large and small.  World Peace through Entrepreneurship offers a nonmilitary, long-term solution at a time of disillusionment with Washington's "big development" approach to unstable and underdeveloped parts of the world - and when the new normal is fear of  terrorist attacks against Western targets, beheadings in Syria, and jihad. Extremism will not be resolved by a war on terror.  The answer, Koltai shows, is stimulating economic opportunities for the virtually limitless supply of desperate, unemployed young men and women leading lives of endless economic frustration. Those opportunities will come through entrepreneurship"--