educational equalization

Discover a six-step framework for becoming culturally literate that complements the Common Core and encourages students to be at the center of learning. Explore how to develop teacher-student relationships, engage in collaborative conversations, and encourage feedback to give voice to the increasingly diverse student body found in today' classrooms.

Examines the ways in which curriculum is structured in the public school system, how it works, and where individual students are placed within it, and describes how this location effects student's college entry and career path.

Pairs leading-edge ideas from award-winning educational scholars, visionaries, and practitioners with ... case studies from multicultural K-12 settings at all levels of the system who have pursued equity goals and closed instructional and achievement gaps"--OCLC.

The author recounts the stories of several black women who helped in the movement to desegregate schools in Americas' Deep South during the civil rights movement.

Examines the chronic underperformance of African American males in United States schools and calls for a paradigm shift in their education.

"Kathleen Budge and William Parrett offer research-based and classroom-tested reflection questions, tools, protocols, and success stories designed to disrupt poverty's adverse influence on learning"--Provided by publisher.

"--- argues that under free market capitalism, life paths prescribed by class but framed as parental choices--publor or private? Gifted & Talented, general or special education?--segregate American children from birth throuh adolescence, and into adulthood, as never before. In age of austerity, an elite class of corporate education reformers has found new ways to transfer the costs f raising children to families. Examining three New York City schools, Class War show how education has been transformed into a competitive "hunger games" for the resources and social connections required for economic success"-- Provided by publisher.