| Legal Rights, Local Wrongs: When Community Control Collides with Educational Equity Contributor(s): Welner, Kevin G. (Author), Oakes, Jeannie (Foreword by), Lipton, Martin (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0791451283 ISBN-13: 9780791451281 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Educational Policy & Reform - Education | Administration - General - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 379.26 |
| LCCN: 2001034166 |
| Series: Suny Series, Restructuring and School Change |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.64" W x 9" (0.99 lbs) 333 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Based on an examination of four school districts facing the prospect of court-ordered detracking, Legal Rights, Local Wrongs challenges fundamental assumptions about the opportunities for equity-minded educational reform. Welner studied districts across the country in San Jose, California; Wilmington, Delaware; Woodland Hills, Pennsylvania; and Rockford, Illinois. These case studies show how white upper middle class parents exercised a disproportionate amount of power in local school policy making, and how that power was wielded to hinder reform opportunities intended to benefit low-income students of color. He shows how many school reforms must arise and develop within cauldrons of political interests and conflicting values and beliefs. This reform context is very different from the politically neutral environments presupposed by conventional school change literature. The book's political and normative focus accordingly examines the least often addressed--and yet most daunting--obstacles standing between America and the just, equitable schools portrayed in American rhetoric. |