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"The work presented in this volume attests to the innovative and successful educational alternatives designed and implemented by Catholic religious groups to improve educational, career, and life outcomes for urban children, adolescents, and adults placed at risk. These efforts have helped thousands of urban citizens break away from the chains of poverty and poor academic preparation to succeed in high school and beyond and secure a place of meaning and influence in adult society. In this volume, we examine the contributions of networks of schools, such as NativityMiguel and Cristo Rey schools in the U.S. and Canada and Fe y Alegría based in South America and operating in multiple countries, as well as more local initiatives. There is much to be learned from these initiatives that can improve urban education and this edited volume provides this opportunity to educators, planners, funders, and others who are inclined to invest in effective urban education. The perspectives taken in these chapters include current approaches to critical race theory, faith perspectives that promote justice, and the building of social capital and resilience to succeed academically despite considerable adversity associated with economic poverty. The chapters included here explore educational structures that communicate high expectations for student and teacher performance and provide individualized instruction, caring mentoring, and support beyond graduation in order to help develop men and women of confidence, skill, leadership, and integrity and ensure high levels of success in a world that tends to exclude them more than welcome them"--

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Higher education institutions continue to address an increasingly complex set of issues regarding equity, diversity and inclusion. Many institutions face increasing pressure to find innovative solutions to eliminate access, participation, and achievement barriers as well as practices that impede retention and graduation rates in higher education. This book provides educators with a global understanding of the challenges associated with the growing diversity of student identities in higher education and provides evidence-based strategies for addressing the challenges associated with implementing equity and inclusion at different higher education institutions around the world.

Educational equalization. --- Belonging (Social psychology) --- Minority students --- Minorities --- Students --- Belongingness (Social psychology) --- Connectedness (Social psychology) --- Social belonging --- Social connectedness --- Social psychology --- Social integration --- Educational equality --- Educational equity --- Educational inequality --- Equal education --- Equal educational opportunity --- Equality of education --- Equalization, Educational --- Equity, Educational --- Inequality, Educational --- Opportunity, Equal educational --- Education --- Affirmative action programs in education --- Education (Higher) --- Ethnic identity. --- Aims and objectives --- Higher & further education, tertiary education. --- Higher.

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Access education has been through many changes since its beginnings in the late 1960s. Recent shifts in the academic landscape including standardization, grading, and new tensions in higher education raise difficult questions for educators regarding the future of access education.This book critically examines various aspects of Access education from a historical perspective. It proposes that there are particular 'Access' values that are shared by practitioners that can be at odds with the needs of higher education. Wider questions concerning funding and accountability underpinned by neoliberalism have also had an impact on Access education. The authors, practitioners and researchers of Access education, gather their insights in this timely book, grounded in authentic experience. They explore the ways in which policies and procedures have been developed in light of these tensions. By drawing particular attention to the voices of Access practitioners and highlighting the current constraints around curriculum design this book will prove invaluable for leaders, administrators, researchers and practitioners in further and higher education.

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This book explores how the concepts of social justice, diversity, equity and inclusion can be understood within the context of higher education. While terms such as these are often in common use in universities, they are not always used with clarity and precision. The editors and contributors offer a serious and detailed examination of pressing contemporary concerns around ‘social justice’ across politics, practice and pedagogy in order to encourage hard thinking and practical agenda setting for social-justice oriented research, teaching and community engagement. Drawing upon new theoretical work, research projects and innovative university teaching, this book offers both useful theoretical insights and practical possibilities for action. This collective and collaborative volume will be of interest and value to all those interested in promoting social justice, in particular how it can be promoted within the university setting. .

Education, Higher --- Inclusive education. --- Social justice and education. --- Educational equalization. --- Social aspects. --- Educational equality --- Educational equity --- Educational inequality --- Equal education --- Equal educational opportunity --- Equality of education --- Equalization, Educational --- Equity, Educational --- Inequality, Educational --- Opportunity, Equal educational --- Education --- Affirmative action programs in education --- Education and social justice --- Inclusion (Education) --- Inclusive learning --- Inclusive schools movement --- Least restrictive environment --- Mainstreaming in education --- Aims and objectives --- Educational sociology. --- Educational sociology . --- Education and sociology. --- Educational policy. --- Education and state. --- Social structure. --- Social inequality. --- Sociology of Education. --- Educational Policy and Politics. --- Social Structure, Social Inequality. --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Social institutions --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Education and sociology --- Social problems in education --- Society and education --- Sociology, Educational --- Government policy --- Equality.

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The United States Supreme Court closed the courthouse door to federal litigation to narrow educational funding and opportunity gaps in schools when it ruled in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez in 1973 that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to education. Rodriguez pushed reformers back to the state courts where they have had some success in securing reforms to school funding systems through education and equal protection clauses in state constitutions, but far less success in changing the basic structure of school funding in ways that would ensure access to equitable and adequate funding for schools. Given the limitations of state school funding litigation, education reformers continue to seek new avenues to remedy inequitable disparities in educational opportunity and achievement, including recently returning to federal court. 0This book is the first comprehensive examination of three issues regarding a federal right to education: why federal intervention is needed to close educational opportunity and achievement gaps; the constitutional and statutory legal avenues that could be employed to guarantee a federal right to education; and, the scope of what a federal right to education should guarantee. 'A Federal Right to Education' provides a timely and thoughtful analysis of how the United States could fulfill its unmet promise to provide equal educational opportunity and the American Dream to every child, regardless of race, class, language proficiency, or neighborhood.

Right to education --- Educational equalization --- Law and legislation --- Right to learn --- Civil rights --- Education, Compulsory --- Education and state --- Educational law and legislation --- American dream. --- Constitution. --- Education Amendment. --- Latinas. --- Latinos. --- Spending Clause. --- Supreme Court. --- achievement gap. --- achievement gaps. --- adequacy litigation. --- adequate education. --- at-risk students. --- civic participation. --- constitutional amendment. --- constitutional interpretation. --- criminal justice. --- education federalism. --- education inadequacies. --- education inequality. --- educational opportunity gaps. --- educational opportunity. --- equal access to an excellent education. --- equal citizenship. --- equal education. --- equal educational opportunity. --- equal liberty. --- equal opportunity. --- equal protection. --- evidence-based reforms. --- excellent and equitable educational opportunity. --- federal education legislation. --- federal government. --- federal right to education. --- federal role in education. --- fiscal capacity. --- high-quality education. --- just society. --- libertystate constitutional rights. --- opportunity gap. --- opportunity gaps. --- opportunity to compete. --- originalism. --- political will. --- privileges and immunities. --- right to education. --- segregation. --- sovereignty. --- state constitutions. --- state courts. --- state education chiefs. --- state fiscal equity litigation. --- state legislatures. --- state school finance litigation. --- substantive due process.