On Equal Terms: The Constitutional Politics of Educational Opportunity

On Equal Terms: The Constitutional Politics of Educational Opportunity
ISBN-10
069111370X
ISBN-13
9780691113708
Series
On Equal Terms
Category
Education
Pages
259
Language
English
Published
2003-04-27
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Author
Douglas S. Reed

Description

"On Equal Terms compares the relative success of school finance lawsuits to the project of school desegregation and explores how race and class present sharply different obstacles to courts. Since a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that effectively deferred to the states in the matter of educational equity, about a third of state judiciaries have mandated reform of state-level educational funding systems. Douglas Reed analyzes both the rhetoric of reform and the varying effects of these controversial decisions while critiquing the courts' failure to more clearly define educational equity."--Jacket.

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