Legal Rights, Local Wrongs: When Community Control Collides with Educational Equity

Author:   Kevin G. Welner ,  Jeannie Oakes ,  Martin Lipton
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9780791451274


Pages:   333
Publication Date:   27 September 2001
Format:   Hardback
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Shows how education reforms take place within cauldrons of political interests and conflicting values and beliefs.

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Author:   Kevin G. Welner ,  Jeannie Oakes ,  Martin Lipton
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.562kg
ISBN:  

9780791451274


ISBN 10:   0791451275
Pages:   333
Publication Date:   27 September 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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By examining the tensions that court-mandated reforms can raise among students, teachers, administrators, and parents, Welner reveals a significant wrinkle in the way educational reform is (or is not) implemented in districts and schools. - Library Journal Welner's unsettling analysis suggests modifications to influential theories and practices that often leave reformers watching helplessly as communities, courts, and schools sabotage well-intentioned, rational, but politically naive schemes for change. Welner argues for combining a nuanced awareness of local practices, a sensitivity to local norms, and the firm hand of the courts. While his recommendations frequently contradict conventional school reform wisdom, Welner grounds his unorthodoxy in powerful, first-hand observations and clear explanations, demonstrating that community resistance will almost always contort bottom-up efforts at reforms like detracking. In the end, however, we must consider even imperfect implementation of equity-minded reforms to be hopeful moments in the struggle for a more socially just society. - From the Foreword by Jeannie Oakes and Martin Lipton, coauthors of Teaching to Change the World


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Kevin G. Welner is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a former practicing attorney.

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