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Direct linkForstag, Erin Hammers – National Academies Press, 2022
On October 14 and 15, and December 8, 2021, the Board on Science Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a virtual Summit entitled Taking Stock of Science Standards Implementation. Participants explored the landscape of state science standards implementation, identified where there have been successes and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Academic Standards, Program Implementation, State Standards
Mullen, Ann L. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010
"Degrees of Inequality" reveals the powerful patterns of social inequality in American higher education by analyzing how the social background of students shapes nearly every facet of the college experience. Even as the most prestigious institutions claim to open their doors to students from diverse backgrounds, class disparities remain.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Graduates, Socioeconomic Background, Enrichment
Moss, Hilary J. – University of Chicago Press, 2009
While white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, Hilary Moss argues, suggest that white opposition to black education was not a foregone conclusion.…
Descriptors: African Americans, Equal Education, Citizenship, African American Education
Smrekar, Claire E., Ed.; Goldring, Ellen B., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2009
"From the Courtroom to the Classroom" examines recent developments pertaining to school desegregation in the United States. As the editors note, it comes at a time marked by a "general downplaying of race and ethnicity as criteria for the allocation of public resources, as well as a weakening of the political forces that support…
Descriptors: Busing, Race, Public Schools, Neighborhood Schools
McDermott, Kathryn A. – 1999
The school choice movement, the "Sheff v O'Neill" desegregation suit, Connecticut's integration and equal opportunity planning, and Jonathan Kozol's "Savage Inequalities" raise questions about the meaning of equality in the context of public education and its possible conflict with liberty and choice. The work analyzes…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Consolidated Schools, Decentralization, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textAbel, Emily K. – 1974
The rhetoric of the community colleges presents them as democratizing agents, enabling the underprivileged to move upward in society through education. While this is their purpose, the community colleges also aspire to gain acceptance as regular members of the system of higher education. In Connecticut, the image of the community colleges suffers…
Descriptors: Campus Planning, College Faculty, College Planning, Disadvantaged
