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Author
Series
Simon B. Rhymin' ; 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When Simon B. Rhymin' and his crew notice inequality in their school and neighborhoood, they use rhymes to help bring their community together.--
Publisher
Teachers College Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Discover an innovative framework for addressing intersectionality within educational spaces designed to combat the cumulative effects of systemic marginalization due to race, gender, disability, class, sexual orientation, and other identity-based labels. Highlighting diverse ways of knowing, this book will generate insights that can inform more equitable policy analysis, research, and practice"--
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"How should teachers respond when children ask challenging questions aabout race? How should teachers handle the use of the "N-word" or discuss "achievement gaps" with colleagues? How can teachers avoid unwittingly making children of colr speak on behalf of their entire group? In more than fifty original pieces written especially for this groundbreaking book, Everyday Antiracism offers practical advice for teachers and parents." From the bookjacket....
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Provided is an engaging and inspiring look at public education in the United States. This documentary has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of five unforgettable students such as Emily, a Silicon Valley eighth-grader who is afraid of being labeled as unfit for college, and Francisco, a Bronx first-grader whose mom will do anything to give him a shot at a better life. Included are featurettes,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In order to move toward a more egalitarian society, the American education system must be reformed to account for genetic differences between individual academic abilities. All groups, all races, and all genders are created equal. Not all individuals are. The Cult of Smart is a provocative and groundbreaking discussion of human potential, a topic which, in recent times, has been corrupted by the pernicious and cynical pseudoscience of "race realism."...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Pedro Noguera is one of the nation's most important voices on the subject of equity and social justice in education. Never afraid to take on the tough issues, he always offers reason for hope in the face of seemingly intractable challenges.
This book collects Noguera's thoughts on a wide range of educational subjects from school improvement to school violence. He examines the link between racial identity and school-related behavior, the significance...
Author
Publisher
Corwin, A SAGE Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Create a systemwide plan for transforming the district office, schools, and classrooms into places that support ALL students. This updated edition continues to explain the need for candid conversations about race so that educators may understand why achievement inequality persists and learn how they can develop a curriculum that promotes educational equity and excellence." --
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which declared the racial segregation of American schools unconstitutional, is universally understood as a landmark moment in our nation's history. Yet looking back from the present day, we judge the integrationist dream post-Brown as an utter failure, in the belief that it harmed students and deepened racial divisions in our society. Though integration efforts continued into the...
Author
Publisher
ASCD
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"... Dominique Smith, Nancy Frey, Ian Pumpian, and Douglas Fisher, colleagues at San Diego's ... Health Sciences High & Middle College, introduce the School Equity Taxonomy, a new model to clarify the structural and interpersonal components of an equitable ... schooling experience, and the School Equity Audit, a survey-based tool to help school and teacher leaders uncover equity-related issues and organize their efforts to better address: Physical...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Can a college education today provide real opportunity to young Americans seeking to improve their station in life? Tough reveals how the landscape of higher education has shifted in recent decades, and exposes the hidden truths of how the system works and whom it works for. He introduces readers to the people who really make higher education go, while taking them on a journey from Ivy League seminar rooms to community college welding shops, from...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"This book takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most influential moments for gender equity in education and tells the dramatic stories of the women and men who made these changes possible. The narrative blends historical analysis with dynamic interview excerpts with people whose actions made a difference in both educational equity and in the country as a whole. By showing how hard-won changes in education have improved life for women and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teachers College Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Examines the challenges and possibilities for building more equitable forms of collaboration among nondominant families, communities, and schools. The text explores how equitable collaboration entails ongoing processes that transform power, build reciprocity and agency, and foster collective capacity. This book describes core concepts and provides multiple examples of effective practices"--
