Title In Brown's wake : legacies of America's educational landmark / Martha Minow

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource Series Law and current events masters Law and current events masters. Contents What Brown awakened -- Expanding promise, debating means : separate and integrated schooling for immigrants, English-language learners, girls, and boys -- Making waves : schooling and disability, sexual orientation, religion, and economic class -- Reverberations for American Indians, Native Hawai'ians, and group rights -- School choice and choice schools : resisting, realizing, or replacing Brown? -- Social science in Brown's path : social contact and integration revisited -- On other shores : when is separate inherently unequal? Summary What is the legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education? While it is well known for establishing racial equality as a central commitment of American schools, the case also inspired social movements for equality in education across all lines of difference, including language, gender, disability, immigration status, socio-economic status, religion, and sexual orientation. Yet more than a half century after Brown, American schools are more racially separated than before, and educators, parents and policy makers still debate whether the ruling requires all-inclusive classrooms in terms of race, gender, disability, and other differences. In Brown's Wake examines the reverberations of Brown in American schools, including efforts to promote equal opportunities for all kinds of students. School choice, once a strategy for avoiding Brown, has emerged as a tool to promote integration and opportunities, even as charter schools and private school voucher programs enable new forms of self-separation by language, gender, disability, and ethnicity. Martha Minow, Dean of Harvard Law School, argues that the criteria placed on such initiatives carry serious consequences for both the character of American education and civil society itself. Although the original promise of Brown remains more symbolic than effective, Minow demonstrates the power of its vision in the struggles for equal education regardless of students'social identity, not only in the United States but also in many countries around the world. Further, she urges renewed commitment to the project of social integration even while acknowledging the complex obstacles that must be overcome. An elegant and concise overview of Brown and its aftermath, In Brown's Wake explores the broad-ranging and often surprising impact of one of the century's most important Supreme Court decisions Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Discrimination in education -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- United States LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. Discrimination in education -- Law and legislation Segregation in education -- Law and legislation United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780199721481 0199721483 1282763288 9781282763289 9786612763281 6612763280

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