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

by Welner, Kevin G.

• ISBN13: 9780791451281
• ISBN10: 0791451283
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Case studies reveal the outcome of four school districts' reforms by the order of the courts, showing how these types of mandates affect parents, students, teachers, and administrators across the country.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	ix
Foreword by Jeannie Oakes and Martin Lipton	xi
Acknowledgements	xv
Preface	xvii
Part I Courting the Courts	1	(90)
The Utopian Project: Detracking and Equity-Minded Reform	3	(16)
The Ones that Got Caught	19	(18)
Follow the Bouncing Gavel	37	(14)
Discrimination's Shadow: Inequitable Placements and Lowered Test Scores	51	(30)
The Importance of Judicial Values	81	(10)
Part II Romancing the Zone	91	(106)
Putting Reform in Context	93	(10)
When Bottom-Up Goes Belly-Up	103	(16)
Initiating Change through a Mandate	119	(18)
They Retard What they Cannot Repel: Parental and Educator Opposition	137	(26)
Tracking, Choice, and Inequity	163	(6)
Equating Black with Bad: Normative Opposition Revisited	169	(22)
Compromises and Inducements	191	(6)
Part III Making Mandates Matter	197	(52)
Change and Constancy	199	(18)
Reform and Opposition in Perspective	217	(6)
Third-Order Change: Modifying the Change Literature as Applied to Equity-Minded Reform	223	(26)
Epilogue	249	(6)
Appendices	255	(14)
Notes	269	(22)
Bibliography	291	(20)
Index	311