Bringing equity back : research for a new era in American educational policy / edited by Janice Petrovich, Amy Stuart Wells ; foreword by Alison Bernstein ; afterword by Wendy Puriefoy.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Teachers College Press, c2005.Description: ix, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0807745766 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780807745762 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LC 213.2 .B75 2005
Contents:
I: Setting the context -- The shifting terrain of education policy: why we must bring equity back / Janice Petrovich -- The politics of equity in urban school reform / Marilyn Gittell -- II: How equity-minded policies have fared in the era of "excellence" -- How tracking undermines race equity in desegregated schools / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson -- Mandates still matter: examining a key policy tool for promoting successful equity-minded reform / Kevin G. Welner, Jeannie Oakes -- Shaping the future: testing and diversity in college admissions / Marguerite Clarke, George Madaus, Arnold R. Shore -- Addressing institutional inequities in education: the case of advanced placement courses in California / Maya Federman, Harry P. Pach�on -- III: Education reform since the 1980s: excellence trumps equity -- Reforming whole schools: challenges and complexities / Mark Berends, Susan Bodilly, Sheila Nataraj Kirby -- School choice in the foreground, gender equity in the background / Amanda Datnow, Lea Hubbard -- Charter school reform and the shifting meaning of educational equity: greater voice and greater inequality? / Amy Stuart Wells, Janelle T. Scott, Alejandra Lopez, Jennifer Jellison Holme -- Race, assets, and choosing schools: current school choices and the future of vouchers / Thomas M. Shapiro, Heather Beth Johnson -- Do school vouchers lead to greater social equity? / Martin Carnoy, Patrick J. McEwan -- Adequacy litigations: a new path to equity? / Michael A. Rebell.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

I: Setting the context -- The shifting terrain of education policy: why we must bring equity back / Janice Petrovich -- The politics of equity in urban school reform / Marilyn Gittell -- II: How equity-minded policies have fared in the era of "excellence" -- How tracking undermines race equity in desegregated schools / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson -- Mandates still matter: examining a key policy tool for promoting successful equity-minded reform / Kevin G. Welner, Jeannie Oakes -- Shaping the future: testing and diversity in college admissions / Marguerite Clarke, George Madaus, Arnold R. Shore -- Addressing institutional inequities in education: the case of advanced placement courses in California / Maya Federman, Harry P. Pach�on -- III: Education reform since the 1980s: excellence trumps equity -- Reforming whole schools: challenges and complexities / Mark Berends, Susan Bodilly, Sheila Nataraj Kirby -- School choice in the foreground, gender equity in the background / Amanda Datnow, Lea Hubbard -- Charter school reform and the shifting meaning of educational equity: greater voice and greater inequality? / Amy Stuart Wells, Janelle T. Scott, Alejandra Lopez, Jennifer Jellison Holme -- Race, assets, and choosing schools: current school choices and the future of vouchers / Thomas M. Shapiro, Heather Beth Johnson -- Do school vouchers lead to greater social equity? / Martin Carnoy, Patrick J. McEwan -- Adequacy litigations: a new path to equity? / Michael A. Rebell.

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