Equity Issues for Today’s Educational Leaders

This book returns the reader to an agenda for addressing equity in schools, emphasizing the need to reexamine past reform efforts and the work ahead for educational leaders in reshaping schools and schooling.

At a time when America's schools face many of the most difficult challenges ever, the authors of Equity Issues for Today's Educational Leaders return the reader to an agenda for addressing equity in schools, emphasizing the need to reexamine past reform efforts and the work ahead for educational leaders in reshaping schools and schooling_in concert, attending to the social responsibility of furthering the ideals of a democratic society.

Part 1 Introduction: Equity Issues for Today's School Leaders
Part 2 Introduction: Creating Equitable Schools for All
Chapter 3 The Meaning of Equity in Creating and Leading Equitable Schools: Revitalizing a Democratic Principle
Chapter 4 Preparing Democratic Educational Leaders: An Equity-Based Approach
Part 5 Introduction: Equity Issues for Today's Educational Leaders
Chapter 6 Meeting the Challenge of Ending Gender Bias in Public Education
Chapter 7 Educational Equity and School Choice: The Effect of Voucher Programs on Access to an Equitable Education and the Role of the School Leader
Chapter 8 Achievement Equity and the Gap that Divides
Chapter 9 Educational Equity and the Special Needs Student
Chapter 10 Addressing Equity and Social Justice Issues for English Language Learners: Using Reflection and Criticality
Chapter 11 Equity and the Preparation of Students for Postsecondary Education
Chapter 12 Diversity, Equity, and the Importance of Culturally Responsive Educational Leaders
Chapter 13 Coda: The Equity Problem and the Work of Educational Leaders