educational equalization

Explores the role education has played in gaining women's rights in America over the past one hundred years.

Presents educational and legal arguments in favor of single-sex education, providing accounts of three inner-city all-girls' public schools, discussing the myths and realities of gender and schooling, and considering the questions of how best to provide an appropriate education for girls and boys.

Examines the 2002 Federal "No Child Left Behind" law and explains how this law actually damages both the schools and its students including the "dumbing down" of standardized tests rather than setting higher standards of achievement.

Discusses the debate over school choice, and presents evidence to support the author's contention that charter schools and vouchers for the poor can advance the the movement toward social and political equality.

Offers an overview of sexual harassment and discrimination, discussing how women can identify it, avoid it, deal with it, and overcome it at school, in the workplace, and in everyday life.

A history of African-American education, tracing the struggles of African-Americans for equal education rights from colonial times through the late twentieth century.

Discusses how to prevent the misidentification of students of low socioeconomic status as learning disabled and improve their performance by supporting school readiness skills, enhancing teaching techniques, fostering relationships between home and school, and more.

Examines the performance rate of African-American and Hispanic students compared to others, the reasons several programs including Head Start and Title I have not closed the gap, and possible solutions.

Contains essays that offer varying perspectives on topics associated with academic achievement in the United States, discussing education equalization and related issues.

Makes a case in favor of all-girl schooling, based on the results of the author's observations of two very different girls' schools, including Marlborough School, an elite prep school in Los Angeles, and The Young Women's Leadership School in East Harlem.