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Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools
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Lareau, Annette, Ed.; Goyette, Kimberly, Ed. – Russell Sage Foundation, 2014
A series of policy shifts over the past decade promises to change how Americans decide where to send their children to school. In theory, the expanded use of standardized test scores and the boom in charter schools will allow parents to evaluate their assigned neighborhood school, or move in search of a better option. But what kind of data do…
Descriptors: School Choice, Decision Making, Place of Residence, Neighborhoods
America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics: Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy
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Ivery, Curtis, Ed.; Bassett, Joshua, Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In "America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics", Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Civil Rights, Democracy, Correctional Institutions
Class, Culture, and Race in American Schools. A Handbook.
Rothstein, Stanley William, Ed. – 1995
Class, culture, and race have influenced the educational experiences of children for centuries, and they are gaining importance in the increasingly diverse American society of today. This reference work explores the critical importance of these issues to American education and uses historical, anthropological, sociological, and theoretical…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Culture, Educational Administration, Educational Change
A Notion at Risk: Preserving Public Education as an Engine for Social Mobility.
Kahlenberg, Richard D., Ed. – 2000
This collection of papers identifies the leading sources of inequality in public education and proposes public policy remedies. The eight chapters are: (1) "Introduction: Making K-12 Public Education an Engine for Social Mobility" (Richard D. Kahlenberg); (2) "Summer Learning and Home Environment" (Doris R. Entwisle, Karl L. Alexander, and Linda…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Charter Schools, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Environment