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.
- New York : Teachers College Press, c2005.
- ix, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The shifting terrain of education policy: why we must bring equity back / The politics of equity in urban school reform / How tracking undermines race equity in desegregated schools / Mandates still matter: examining a key policy tool for promoting successful equity-minded reform / Shaping the future: testing and diversity in college admissions / Addressing institutional inequities in education: the case of advanced placement courses in California / Reforming whole schools: challenges and complexities / School choice in the foreground, gender equity in the background / Race, assets, and choosing schools: current school choices and the future of vouchers / Do school vouchers lead to greater social equity? / Janice Petrovich -- Marilyn Gittell -- Roslyn Arlin Mickelson -- Kevin G. Welner, Jeannie Oakes -- Marguerite Clarke, George Madaus, Arnold R. Shore -- Maya Federman, Harry P. Pach�on -- Mark Berends, Susan Bodilly, Sheila Nataraj Kirby -- 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 -- Thomas M. Shapiro, Heather Beth Johnson -- Martin Carnoy, Patrick J. McEwan -- Adequacy litigations: a new path to equity? / Michael A. Rebell. I: Setting the context -- II: How equity-minded policies have fared in the era of "excellence" -- III: Education reform since the 1980s: excellence trumps equity --