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Hillman, Nicholas, Ed.; Orfield, Gary, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2022
"Civil Rights and Federal Higher Education" offers a renewed vision for higher education policy making, presenting an incisive analysis of the connections between educational politics and educational inequality. With a view toward the future, the editors assert that the thoughtful application of evidence-based solutions to complex policy…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Higher Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Policy
Melnick, R. Shep – University of Chicago Press, 2023
In 1954, the Supreme Court delivered the landmark decision of "Brown v. Board of Education"--establishing the right to attend a desegregated school as a national constitutional right--but the decision contained fundamental ambiguities. The Supreme Court has never offered a clear definition of what desegregation means or laid out a…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Educational Policy, Educational History, Administrators
Mary E. Little; Dena D. Slanda; Elizabeth D. Cramer – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024
This book is designed to build and enhance educators' knowledge about decision-making processes, including the use of multiple sources of assessment and data to inform instruction, interventions, services, and supports for all students within a comprehensive system to conduct action research. This resource demystifies, describes, and connects the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Skills, Teacher Characteristics, Decision Making Skills
Herrera, Socorro G.; Rodríguez, Diane; Cabral, Robin M.; Holmes, Melissa A. – Teachers College Press, 2023
The need for teachers who have both the knowledge and skills to teach students in special education, especially students who are emergent bilinguals, is more critical today than ever before. Assumptions about the assurances outlined in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) have led to practices that have limited the scope of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Inclusion, Student Diversity, Students with Disabilities
David F. Bateman; C. Fred Bateman – Council for Exceptional Children, 2024
The fourth edition of "A Principal's Guide to Special Education," is an indispensable resource for educators navigating the complexities of special education in the 21st century, it is crucial to continue evolving the guide to address the ever-changing landscape of educational needs, legal requirements, and best practices. This new…
Descriptors: Principals, Special Education Teachers, Special Education, Educational Needs
David J. Armor; John R. Munich; Aron Malatinszky – Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics, 2024
This book offers a novel and up-to-date exploration of the common belief that increasing conventional school resources will increase academic achievement and help close gaps between various advantaged and disadvantaged students. Taking the scholarship around this question, such as James S. Coleman's 1965 report on the Equality of Educational…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Resources, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Gordon, Nora; Conaway, Carrie – Harvard Education Press, 2020
Written by two leading experts in education research and policy, "Common-Sense Evidence" is a concise, accessible guide that helps education leaders find and interpret data and research, and then put that knowledge into action. In the book, Nora Gordon and Carrie Conaway empower educators to address the federal Every Student Succeeds Act…
Descriptors: Data Use, Educational Research, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2019
Pending legislation, regulatory changes, and judicial decisions will require colleges and universities to adapt, perhaps in significant ways. Designed to help governing boards, institutional leaders, and senior staff understand the current policy landscape, this publication summarizes and contextualizes the most pressing federal and state public…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Educational Legislation
Hermanowicz, Joseph C., Ed. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021
Academic freedom may be threatened like never before. Yet confusion endures about what professors have a defensible right to say or publish, particularly in extramural forums like social media. At least one source of the confusion in the United States is the way in which academic freedom is often intertwined with a constitutional freedom of…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Barriers, Educational Administration, Federal Legislation
Gavin, Joanne H.; Quick, James Campbell; Gavin, David J. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021
In a world where one in five women on campus experience some form of sexual assault, what would it take to create a campus culture that was free of violence against women? From a public health perspective, sexual assault is an epidemic on campuses, but why? What is it about a campus community culture that permits or encourages this, at a time when…
Descriptors: Violence, Rape, Sexual Abuse, College Environment
Dabby, Dia – University of British Columbia Press, 2022
Canadian public schools have long been entrusted with the mandate of socializing children. Yet this duty can rest uneasily alongside religious diversity questions. Grounding its analysis in three seminal Supreme Court cases involving religion in schools, "Religious Diversity in Canadian Public Schools" reveals legal processes that are…
Descriptors: Religion, Diversity, Foreign Countries, Public Schools
Fisher, Bonnie S., Ed.; Sloan, John J., III, Ed. – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2022
This new edition of "Campus Crime" shares with readers the advancements that have been made in understanding campus crime. Across the three sections of the book, chapters review changes while also addressing current -- and even future -- crime and security issues confronting institutions of higher education. Some of these chapters…
Descriptors: Crime, Higher Education, Victims of Crime, Sexual Abuse
Royal, Camika – Harvard Education Press, 2022
"Not Paved for Us" chronicles a fifty-year period in Philadelphia education, and offers a critical look at how school reform efforts do and do not transform outcomes for Black students and educators. This illuminating book offers an extensive, expert analysis of a school system that bears the legacy, hallmarks, and consequences that lie…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Change, African American Students, African American Teachers
Harry, Beth; Ocasio-Stoutenburg, Lydia – Teachers College Press, 2020
This book presents an in-depth discussion of how human disability and parental advocacy have been constructed in American society, including recommendations for a more authentically inclusive vision of parental advocacy. The authors provide a cultural-historical view of the conflation of racism, classism, and ableism that has left a deeply…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Advocacy, Diversity, Parent Participation
McBride, Christi; Duncan-Davis, Brenda – Solution Tree, 2021
Foster confident, well-rounded, career-ready students. Written for teachers and administrators, this targeted guide introduces the Youth Employability Skills (YES!) framework, which has been adopted by schools across the United States. Learn how to use this powerful framework in a multitude of courses to ensure students develop the essential…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Employment Potential, Soft Skills, Skill Development
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