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Book SynopsisSince the desegregation battles of the 1960s and 1970s, the legal pursuit of educational opportunity in the United States has been framed around race. This book examines the consequences of efforts to use state constitutional provisions to reduce the 'resource segregation' of American schools and the politics of the opposition to these decisions.
Trade Review"Ambitious... An important contribution to our knowledge of politics, the quandaries, and the outcomes of school finance litigation."--Timothy J. O'Neill, Law and Politics Book Review "Reed puts a human face of educational reform and clearly demonstrates that the struggle is neither for the fainthearted nor for the impatient... A 'must read.'"--Frederick J. Brigham, American School Board Journal
Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS lx ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi INTRODUCTION xiii PART I RACE, CLASS, AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY CHAPTER 1. Courts and Educational Opportunity: The Movement from Race to Class 3 CHAPTER 2. The Judicial Impact on School Finance Reform 15 CHAPTER 3. Race, Class, and the Limits of Justice 36 PART II THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDERING OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY CHAPTER 4. How Does a Constitution Mean? Constitutional Ordering and the Lessons of Educational Opportunity 53 CHAPTER 5. A Bounded Ambition: The Judicial Ordering of Educational Opportunity 65 CHAPTER 6. The Public's Opinion: Understanding Public Commitments toward Educational Opportunity 92 CHAPTER 7. Regimes of Inequality: The Organization of Educational Politics 125 CHAPTER 8. Conclusion: Constituting Education in America 163 APPENDIXES 18 NOTES 191 BIBLIOGRAPHY 217 INDEX 229
