All things being equal
Subtitle: instigating opportunity in an inequitable time
By: ed. by Brian D. Smedley and Alan Jenkins
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York [u.a.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781595582102
Subjects: Educational equalization / United States; United States / Social conditions / 1980-; Minorities / United States / Economic conditions; United States / Economic conditions / 2001-; Equality / United States; Immigrants / United States / Economic conditions
Notes: Introduction: instigating opportunity in inequitable times / Alan Jenkins, Brian D. Smedley, and Bill Lann Lee -- You can take it with you: income and wealth across generations / Jared Bernstein -- Educational quality and equality : what it will take to leave no child behind / Linda Darling-Hammond -- Connecting families to opportunity: the next generation of housing mobility policy / Philip Tegeler -- Reducing incarceration to expand opportunity / Marc Mauer -- Why health care equity is essential to opportunity-and how to get there / Brian D. Smedley -- Measuring the extent and forms of discrimination in the marketplace: lessons from paired testing research / Margery Austin Turner and Carla Herbig -- Finding America : creating educational opportunity for our newest citizens / Edward E. Telles and Vilma Ortiz -- Notes
Table of contents: title: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-239)