Our promise
Subtitle: achieving educational equality for America's children
By: edited by Maurice R. Dyson and Daniel Weddle.
Contributors: Dyson, Maurice R.; Weddle, Daniel.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 631
ISBN-13: 9781594601279
Subjects: United States; Educational equalization -- United States; Discrimination in education -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Maurice R. Dyson & Daniel Weddle; title: Desegregation and the struggle for equal schooling: rolling the rock of Sisyphus / Molly Townes O'Brien; title: De facto segregation & group blindness: proposals for narrow tailoring under a new viable state interest / Maurice R. Dyson; title: Fiscal inequity and resegregation: two pressing mutual concerns of K-12 education and higher education / William A. Kaplin; title: The NCLB, race, ethnicity, class and diversity: promoting a high school to law/graduate school pipeline for underrepresented students / Jodie Roure; title: The black divide on affirmative action / Angela Onwuachi-Willig; title: The No Child Left Behind Act and the birth of race-conscious school finance litigation / Preston C. Green III & Bruce D. Baker; title: School finance litigation: beyond equality / Victoria Dodd; title: Closing the door on public school integration: parents involved and the Supreme Court's continued neglect of adequacy concerns / Osamudia R. James; title: No Child Left Behind: creating and sustaining a two-tiered system of education for the nation's youth / Anita Kuykendall Stoll; title: Accountability charter schools / Danielle Holley-Walker; title: Reform or retrenchment?: single sex education and the construction of race and gender / Verna L. Williams; title: Constitutional remedies for Latino educational neglect / Lupe S. Salinas; title: Untold stories: college persistence for first generation students, family roots of inspiration, and burden to accomplish the family dream / Kate Bueler; title: My only ticket to a better tomorrow: immigrant and refugee student determinants and strategies to academic success in American schools / Jerono Phyllis Rotich; title: Bullying's effects on equal educational opportunity / Douglas E. Abrams; title: Brutality and blindness: bullying in schools and negligent supervision by school officials / Daniel Weddle; title: Race and disability / Robert A. Garda; title: Achieving the promise: the significant role of highly qualified teachers in transforming children's mental health in America / Deanne Lechtenberger & Frank Mullins; title: Voices from the bottom of the well: No Child Left Behind and the allegory of equitable education as a gateway to crime and delinquency / Susan Stuart & Geneva brown; title: Essay: ability grouping and tracking and No Child Left Behind; title: Stratification in the accountability era / Donna M. Harris; title: Examining the connection of NCLB to educational equity: smaller learning; title: Communities (SLC) program / Na'im H. Madyun; title: Compromising curricula inequity in literacy learning / Caitlin McMunn Dooley & Lori Czop Assaf; title: Increasing the school year for some, but not all, children: barriers to extending the school year / Len Biernat.