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In Brown's Wake - Legacies of America's Educational Landmark (Paperback)
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In Brown's Wake - Legacies of America's Educational Landmark (Paperback)
Series: Law and Current Events Masters
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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.
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