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Margaret Beale Spencer; Nancy E. Dowd – Harvard Education Press, 2024
In "Radical Brown," renowned developmental scholar Margaret Beale Spencer and critical legal analyst Nancy E. Dowd offer a fresh perspective on the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision. Noting that decades of flawed implementation have subverted "Brown's" great promise of educational equality for K-12 public school…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Cultural Relevance, Inclusion
Kelly, Hilton – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
This book explores a profoundly negative narrative about legally segregated schools in the United States being "inherently inferior" compared to their white counterparts. However, there are overwhelmingly positive counter-memories of these schools as "good and valued" among former students, teachers, and community members.…
Descriptors: United States History, Racial Segregation, African American History, Memory
Kitching, Karl – Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics, 2014
The marketised and securitised shaping of formal education sites in terms of risk prevention strategies have transformed what it means to be a learner and a citizen. In this book, Karl Kitching explores racialised dimensions to suggest how individuals and collectives are increasingly made responsible for their own welfare as "good" or…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Compulsory Education, Racial Bias, Citizenship Education
Strom, Adam – Facing History and Ourselves, 2009
This resource gives students and teachers a greater understanding of identity, membership, citizenship, and belonging in the UK. In a time when debates about national identity and integration have taken on increased urgency, Facing History and Ourselves introduces, "Identity and Belonging in a Changing Great Britain". It reveals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nationalism, Identification, Immigrants
Gabbard, David A., Ed.; Ross, E. Wayne, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2008
This highly acclaimed volume in the "Defending Public Schools" series is now available in paperback from Teachers College Press. It is a practical, necessary addition to the work of administrators, teachers, policymakers, and parents as they negotiate the difficult path of how to best teach and educate today's children and youth. This…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Privatization, Federal Legislation