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In Accountability and Opportunity in Higher Education, leading
scholars address the unforeseen impact of accountability standards
on students of color and the institutions that disproportionately
serve them. The book describes how federal policies can worsen
existing racial inequalities in higher education and offers
alternative solutions aimed to protect and advance civil rights for
low-income and minority students and their colleges. This volume
begins with a chapter putting higher education accountability in
historical perspective and connecting it to the increasing
importance of postsecondary education for upward mobility, coupled
with rising barriers to minority student access and success. Based
on a series of studies using cutting-edge research methodologies,
the contributors suggest new ways to design and evaluate
accountability policies that avoid predictable negative
consequences. Written against a backdrop of unequal opportunity and
racial inequality in preparation for and access to higher
education, Accountability and Opportunity in Higher Education
arrives at a pivotal time in American education.
Civil Rights and Federal Higher Education offers a renewed vision
for higher education policy making, presenting an incisive analysis
of the connections between educational politics and educational
inequality. With a view toward the future, the editors assert that
the thoughtful application of evidence-based solutions to complex
policy problems can help establish a more just and equitable system
of higher education. Edited by Nicholas Hillman and Gary Orfield,
the volume focuses on federal policy debates that have significant
racial and socioeconomic implications, linking civil rights reforms
to contemporary higher education policy issues. Through a mix of
history and current events, the chapters highlight how policy has
strayed from the Higher Education Act’s intended trajectory of
promoting and protecting civil rights. This drift, the editors
show, has created far-reaching consequences for students of color,
low-income students, and incarcerated students, in addition to the
colleges that serve them. Deftly identifying the social justice
dimensions of today’s federal policies, the editors reveal how
certain political influences have preserved the interests of
powerful and historically advantaged stakeholders—often at the
expense of those who are less powerful and most disadvantaged. With
great insight, the book’s contributors explore higher education
issues such as enrollment at Minority Serving Institutions,
for-profit college outcomes, and legal and academic perspectives on
affirmative action. Perhaps more importantly, Civil Rights and
Federal Higher Education provides guidance on what can be done to
course correct. The book offers short- and long-term policy
prescriptions and policy alternatives to help legislative staffers,
policy analysts, and researchers plot a way forward.
In Accountability and Opportunity in Higher Education, leading
scholars address the unforeseen impact of accountability standards
on students of color and the institutions that disproportionately
serve them. The book describes how federal policies can worsen
existing racial inequalities in higher education and offers
alternative solutions aimed to protect and advance civil rights for
low-income and minority students and their colleges. This volume
begins with a chapter putting higher education accountability in
historical perspective and connecting it to the increasing
importance of postsecondary education for upward mobility, coupled
with rising barriers to minority student access and success. Based
on a series of studies using cutting-edge research methodologies,
the contributors suggest new ways to design and evaluate
accountability policies that avoid predictable negative
consequences. Written against a backdrop of unequal opportunity and
racial inequality in preparation for and access to higher
education, Accountability and Opportunity in Higher Education
arrives at a pivotal time in American education.
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