On equal terms
Subtitle: the constitutional politics of educational opportunity
By: Douglas S. Reed
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780691088464
Subjects: Nationale Minderheit; Onderwijsbeleid; Financiën; Droit à l'éducation; Rassendiscriminatie; Schulrecht; Bildung; Finanzierung; Discrimination in education; Aspect économique; Finances; Diskriminierung; Finance; Éducation; Chancengleichheit; Erziehung; Droit; Discrimination en éducation; Law and legislation; Recht op onderwijs; Education
Description: "Since Brown v. Board of Education and the desegregation battles of the 1960s and 1970s, the legal pursuit of educational opportunity in the United States has been framed largely around race. But for nearly thirty years now, a less-noticed but controversial legal campaign has been afoot to equalize or improve the resources of poorly funded schools. This book examines both the consequences of efforts to use state constitutional provisions to reduce the "resource segregation" of American schools and the politics of the opposition to these decisions."

"On Equal Terms compares the relative success of school finance lawsuits to the project of school desegregation and explores how race and class present sharply different obstacles to courts. Since a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that effectively deferred to the states in the matter of educational equity, about a third of state judiciaries have mandated reform of state-level educational funding systems. Douglas Reed analyzes both the rhetoric of reform and the varying effects of these controversial decisions while critiquing the courts' failure to more clearly define educational equity."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: Race, Class, And Educational Opportunity --; title: Courts and Educational Opportunity: The Movement from Race to Class --; title: The Judicial Impact on School Finance Reform --; title: Race, Class, and the Limits of Justice --; title: The Constitutional Ordering of Educational Opportunity --; title: How Does a Constitution Mean? Constitutional Ordering and the Lessons of Educational Opportunity --; title: A Bounded Ambition: The Judicial Ordering of Educational Opportunity --; title: The Public's Opinion: Understanding Public Commitments toward Educational Opportunity --; title: Regimes of Inequality: The Organization of Educational Politics --; title: Conclusion: Constituting Education in America.