Product Description: A portrait of the culture of a top law school. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A timely, fair-minded contribution to the ongoing debate over affirmative action argues that such programs should be based on economic status rather than race, in order to ensure that they benefit the truly disadvantaged. Reprint.

Product Description: The 2000 presidential campaign is ushering in a renewed focus on public education. The question is, what would be best for our children? This volume of essays seeks to restore the notion that public education should be an engine for social mobility, a concern that animated Brown v...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This provocative book asks a simple question: since we know that middle class schools tend to work best, why not give every child in America the opportunity to attend a public school in which the majority of students come from middle class households? Economically integrated schools, the author argues, will do far more to promote achievement and equal opportunity than vouchers, standards, class size reduction, or any of the other leading education proposals on the left and right that seek to make separate but equal schools work...read more

Product Description: In the wake of the US Supreme Court's decision upholding the constitutionality of public funding for private religious schools, the debate over private school vouchers has intensified. At the same time, the federal No Child Left Behind Act has put new emphasis on choice within the public school system...read more

Product Description: With access to higher education more important than ever, low-income students of all racial and ethnic groups continue to lag in participation. What can be done to ensure that more low-income students have adequate financial aid to attend college? That disadvantaged students are academically prepared for college and will graduate? That selective universities are open to students of all economic backgrounds? As Congress prepares to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, a group of widely respected scholars proposes a number of provocative ideas in this volume...read more

Product Description: The landmark federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was passed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support. In the years since then, however, it has come under sharp attack, not only from those on the left and right who never liked standardsbased reform in the first place but also from moderates who find several elements of NCLB untenable...read more

Product Description: In Woody Allen's 1973 film, Sleeper, a character wakes up in the future to learn that civilization was destroyed when "a man by the name of Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead." Shanker was condemned by many when he shut down the New York City school system in the bitter strikes of 1967 and 1968, and he was denounced for stirring up animosity between black parents and Jewish teachers...read more

Product Description: The use of race-based affirmative action in higher education has given rise to hundreds of books and law review articles, numerous court decisions, and several state initiatives to ban the practice. However, surprisingly little has been said or written or done to challenge a larger, longstanding "affirmative action" program that tends to benefit wealthy whites: legacy preferences for the children of alumni...read more

Product Description: Almost fifty years ago the Coleman Report, widely regarded as the most important educational study of the twentieth century, found that the most powerful predictor of academic achievement is the socioeconomic status of a child's family...read more

Product Description: American society has grown dramatically more unequal over the past quarter century. The economic gains of American workers after World War II have slowly been eroded —in part because organized labor has gone from encompassing one-third of the private sector workers to less than one-tenth...read more