On Equal Terms
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-08846-4 (ISBN)
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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. The work 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 US 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.
The book concludes with a policy proposal that acknowledges obstacles to such efforts. This proposal aims to enhance education by fostering racial and economic integration locally.
Douglas S. Reed is Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS lx ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi INTRODUCTION xiii PART I RACE, CLASS, AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY CHAPTER 1. Courts and Educational Opportunity: The Movement from Race to Class 3 CHAPTER 2. The Judicial Impact on School Finance Reform 15 CHAPTER 3. Race, Class, and the Limits of Justice 36 PART II THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDERING OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY CHAPTER 4. How Does a Constitution Mean? Constitutional Ordering and the Lessons of Educational Opportunity 53 CHAPTER 5. A Bounded Ambition: The Judicial Ordering of Educational Opportunity 65 CHAPTER 6. The Public's Opinion: Understanding Public Commitments toward Educational Opportunity 92 CHAPTER 7. Regimes of Inequality: The Organization of Educational Politics 125 CHAPTER 8. Conclusion: Constituting Education in America 163 APPENDIXES 18 NOTES 191 BIBLIOGRAPHY 217 INDEX 229
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.8.2001 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 8 tables, 1 halftone, 16 line illus. |
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 539 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-08846-2 / 0691088462 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-08846-4 / 9780691088464 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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