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Cardichon, Jessica; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
Today's education landscape, including how students experience school, can reflect pervasive educational inequities. Past federal administrations and congresses, recognizing their critical role in addressing inequality, often acted to address disparities and violations of students' civil rights that had been left unresolved by states and…
Descriptors: Student Rights, Civil Rights, Federal Government, Government Role
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Cook-Harvey, Channa M.; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Lam, Livia; Mercer, Charmaine; Roc, Martens – Learning Policy Institute, 2016
Despite the American promise of equal educational opportunity for all students, persistent achievement gaps among more and less advantaged groups of students remain, along with the opportunity gaps that create disparate outcomes. However, the recent passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) represents an opportunity for the federal…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
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Cook-Harvey, Channa M.; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Lam, Livia; Mercer, Charmaine; Roc, Martens – Learning Policy Institute, 2016
Despite the American promise of equal educational opportunity for all students, persistent achievement gaps among more and less advantaged groups of students remain, along with the opportunity gaps that create disparate outcomes. However, the recent passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) represents an opportunity for the federal…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education