Achieving equal educational opportunity for students of color : disrupting structural racism - an American imperative /

Valencia presents the most comprehensive, theory-based analysis to date on how society and schools are structurally organized and maintained to impede the optimal academic achievement of low-SES, marginalized K-12 Black and Latino/Latina students, compared to their privileged White counterparts. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Valencia, Richard R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Teachers College Press, [2024].
Series:Multicultural education series.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Theoretical frameworks: analyzing and understanding structural racism and educational inequality
  • 2. Exploring equal educational opportunity: its centrality in creating school success for marginalized students of color
  • 3. The achievement gap: the persistent and pervasive chasm in racialized academic achievement performance
  • 4. The 'other" gaps: income, wealth, housing, and health
  • 5. School segregation, desegregation, resegregation, and integration: the need and time for a scholarly paradigm shift
  • 6. Racialized school funding: money matters for academic achievement
  • 7. Teacher equality: the urgent need for a social justice-oriented, racially diverse teaching force
  • 8. Sorting students by race: inequalities in curriculum differentiation
  • 9. White racial curricular hegemony: its establishment and perpetuation, and political resistance and cultural reclamation by people of color
  • 10. An investment now in equal education for students of color is an economic investment for all in the future: an American imperative.