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

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"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 contrib...

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Other Authors: Frankenberg, Erica (Editor)
Debray, Elizabeth H. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Subjects:
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.
EDUCATION > Multicultural Education.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Discrimination in education.
Education and state.
Educational equalization.
Educational law and legislation.
Multicultural education.
School integration.
United States.
Electronic books.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (JSTOR)
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 341 pages) : illustrations
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction: Looking to the Future / Erica Frankenberg and Elizabeth Debray
  • Part I: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Now? Standing at a Crossroads: The Future of Integrated Public Schooling in America / John Charles Boger
  • School Choice as a Civil Right: The Political Construction of a Claim and Its Implications for School Desegregation / Janelle Scott
  • Integration after Parents Involved: What Does Research Suggest about Available Options? / Erica Frankenberg
  • Advancing the Integration Agenda under the Obama Administration and Beyond / Chinh Q. Le.
  • Part II: The Case for Integration. School Racial and Ethnic Composition and Young Children's Cognitive Development: Isolating Family, Neighborhood, and School Influences / Douglas D. Ready and Megan R. Silander
  • Southern Graduates of School Desegregation: A Double Consciousness of Resegregation yet Hope / Amy Stuart Wells, Jacquelyn Duran, and Terrenda White
  • Legally Viable Desegregation Strategies: The Case of Connecticut / Casey D. Cobb, Robert Bifulco, and Courtney Bell
  • Regional Coalitions and Educational Policy: Lessons from the Nebraska Learning Community Agreement / Jennifer Jellison Holme, Sarah L. Diem, and Katherine Cumings Mansfield.
  • Part III: Student Assignment Policy Choices and Evidence. Socioeconomic School Integration: Preliminary Lessons from More Than 80 Districts / Richard D. Kahlenberg
  • The Effects of Socioeconomic School Integration Policies on Racial School Desegregation / Sean F. Reardon and Lori Rhodes
  • Is Class Working? Socioeconomic Student Assignment Plans in Wake County, North Carolina, and Cambridge, Massachusetts / Genevieve Siegel-Hawley
  • Using Geography to Further Racial Integration / Sheneka Williams and Erica Frankenberg
  • Magnet Schools, MSAP, and New Opportunities to Promote Diversity / Claire Smrekar and Ellen Goldring.
  • Part IV: The Pursuit of School-Level Equity. Resource Allocation Post-Parents Involved / Eric A. Houck
  • Improving Teaching and Learning in Integrated Schools / Willis D. Hawley and Jacqueline Jordan Irvine
  • Latinos, Language, and Segregation: Options for a More Integrated Future / Patricia Gándara.
  • Part V: Integrated Means toward Integrated Ends: Broadening Social Policies. Federal Legislation to Promote Metropolitan Approaches to Educational and Housing Opportunity / Elizabeth Debray and Erica Frankenberg
  • Linking Housing and School Integration to Growth Management / Myron Orfield
  • Conclusion: Returning to First Principles / Gary Orfield.