Equity, equality, and reform in contemporary public education /
"This book explores why equality and equity are often mischaracterized as interchangeable terms in public education. It discusses equity, including historical and social contexts of equity, rationale for continued focus on equality, school reform as a form of equity and the how a Eurocentric cu...
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IGI Global,
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Publisher Address: | Hershey, Pa. : |
Publication Dates: | [2018] |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-5225-4960-4 |
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"This book explores why equality and equity are often mischaracterized as interchangeable terms in public education. It discusses equity, including historical and social contexts of equity, rationale for continued focus on equality, school reform as a form of equity and the how a Eurocentric curriculum prohibits an equitable distribution of resources and opportunities in modern education"-- |
Carrier Form: | 20 PDFs (xvi, 329 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781522549611 |
Access: | Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers. |
Index Number: | LC213 |
CLC: | G571.2 |
Contents: | Chapter 1. Equity, equality, and reform in contemporary public education: equity, equality, and reform -- Chapter 2. Revolutionizing education -- Chapter 3. All my life I had to fight: the disproportionate impact of school disciplinary policies on black girls in K-12 contexts -- Chapter 4. Viewing the contamination of student achievement through the lens of poverty -- Chapter 5. "So, are you Hindi?": religion and education in U.S. South Asian narratives -- Chapter 6. Girls in STEM K-12 subjects: exploring the confidence and hindrance of pursuing STEM careers -- Chapter 7. Educational disparities among marginalized groups of students: do bully victimization and unsafe schools impede students' educational attainment? -- Chapter 8. Pedagogical interventions in the first-year writing classroom for first-generation college students -- Chapter 9. Sowing seeds of justice: feminists' reflections on teaching for social justice in the Southwest -- Chapter 10. Using culturally responsive teaching and data-driven instruction in mathematics to create equity and equality: culturally responsive mathematics -- Chapter 11. Education as the practice of freedom: writing truth into the curriculum across the globe. |