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1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Ideals; Chapter 1. The Challenges of Measuring School Quality: Implications for Educational Equity, Helen Ladd and Susanna Loeb; Chapter 2. Equality, Adequacy, and K-12 Education, Rob Reich; Chapter 3. Learning to Be Equal: Just Schools as Schools of Justice, Anthony Simon Laden; Chapter 4. Education for Shared Fate Citizenship, Sigal Ben-Porath; Part 2. Constraints; Chapter 5. Can Members of Marginalized Groups Remain Invested in Schooling? An Assessment from the United States and the United Kingdom, Angel L. Harris |
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Chapter 6. Conferring Disadvantage: Immigration, Schools, and the Family, Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo M. Suárez-OrozcoChapter 7. The Myth of Intelligence: Smartness Isn't Like Height, Gregory M. Walton; Chapter 8. Racial Segregation and Black Student Achievement, Richard Rothstein; Part 3. Strategies; Chapter 9. Family Values and School Policy: Shaping Values and Conferring Advantage, Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift; Chapter 10. The Federal Role in Educational Equity: The Two Narratives of School Reform and the Debate over Accountability, Patrick McGuinn |
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Chapter 11. Reading Thurgood Marshall as a Liberal Democratic Theorist: Race, School Finance, and the Courts, Anna Marie SmithChapter 12. Sharing Knowledge, Practicing Democracy: A Vision for the Twenty-First-Century University, Seth Moglen; Notes; References; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Education is a contested topic, and not just politically. For years scholars have approached it from two different points of view: one empirical, focused on explanations for student and school success and failure, and the other philosophical, focused on education's value and purpose within the larger society. Rarely have these separate approaches been brought into the same conversation. Education, Justice, and Democracy does just that, offering an intensive discussion by highly respected scholars across empirical and philosophical disciplines. The contributors |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Educational equalization -- United States
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Democracy and education -- United States
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Educational equalization.
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Democracy and education.
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Education -- Philosophy.
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
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Democracy and education
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Education -- Philosophy
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Educational equalization
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Demokratie
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Bildung
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Chancengleichheit
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Utbildning -- sociala aspekter.
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Förenta staterna.
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Demokrati.
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United States
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USA
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Allen, Danielle S., 1971-
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Reich, Rob
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| ISBN |
9780226012933 |
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022601293X |
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9781283954464 |
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128395446X |
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