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Akom, Antwi – Teachers College Record, 2011
Background/Context: The issue of how to achieve a racially diverse student population has become increasingly challenging since a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court split decision endorsed the importance of creating diverse schools, while simultaneously limiting the assignment to public schools based on an individual student's race or ethnicity. The article…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Race, Public Schools, Participatory Research
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Sleeter, Christine E. – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background/Context: A challenge for teachers who support teaching for and about democracy is doing so while being pressed into directives rooted in corporatocracy, a political manifestation of neoliberalism. The accountability movement today, particularly No Child Left Behind, is rooted in much more firmly in corporatocracy than democracy.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Democracy, Second Language Learning, Masters Theses