Overview
Students experiencing homelessness often face overwhelming obstacles that limit both their access to education and their prospects for success in life. The McKinney-Vento Act (1987) was created to ensure that schools provide services that support students in unstable housing situations but, unfortunately, effective implementation of important provisions continues to be elusive. In addition, adults charged with McKinney-Vento implementation in schools voice frustration with overload and lack of support or consistent resources. Through interviews with youth experiencing homelessness, Aviles de Bradley introduces readers to their remarkable resilience under fire and their determination to thrive despite the systemic inequities they encounter daily. The book also explores how poor people of color experience and interface with social institutions, namely schools, and uncovers important connections between homelessness and racism using a Critical Race Theory framework. Readers are challenged to see McKinney-Vento implementation not as charity, but as an issue of legislated social justice and to work towards educational equity for students experiencing homelessness.
Full Product Details
Author: Ann Aviles de Bradley ,
Marvin Lynn
Publisher: Teachers' College Press
Imprint: Teachers' College Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.200kg
ISBN: 9780807756393
ISBN 10: 0807756393
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 15 June 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""...is an important voice in the recent discourse about homeless youth of color in the United States. Perhaps even more importantly, she contributes to the larger conversation about social justice by highlighting the intersectionality between homelessness, education, class, and race. The implications of this research are both immediate and far-reaching."" --Urban Education
...is an important voice in the recent discourse about homeless youth of color in the United States. Perhaps even more importantly, she contributes to the larger conversation about social justice by highlighting the intersectionality between homelessness, education, class, and race. The implications of this research are both immediate and far-reaching. --Urban Education
Author Information
Ann Aviles de Bradley is assistant professor of education and human development in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Delaware University.
