Little has been done to understand how student demographics shape school employment practices. Using statistical data on Black, Hispanic, and Anglo teachers employed in California public schools, this study concludes that minority student growth rates, interacting with school segregation, are significant predictors of minority teacher employment…

Class, culture, and race have influenced the educational experiences of children for centuries, and they are gaining importance in the increasingly diverse American society of today. This reference work explores the critical importance of these issues to American education and uses historical, anthropological, sociological, and theoretical…

Dedicated to celebrating the importance of law in U.S. life, the 19 stories collected in this volume are about legislators who enact the law, judges who interpret it, and lawyers who practice it. The stories describe the contributions to the United States through the law of distinguished individuals, emphasizing the devotion of many lawyers to…