Description
Book SynopsisArgues that responding to a number of factors like air quality, housing, public health, community safety, segregation, and neighborhood conditions are essential to improving academic outcomes and student health. This volume urges readers to reconsider what education policy is, what it could be, who it is for, and who should be directly shaping it.
Table of Contents
- Contents
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Foreword Becky Pringle v
- Acknowledgments vii
- 1. Our Children Can't Wait: The Urgency of Reinventing Education Policy in America 1
- Joseph P. Bishop
- 2. Grappling With America's History to Inform Our Future Policies 11
- Arnold F. Fege and John H. Jackson
- 3. Making Children a National Priority: Overcoming the Marginalization and Invisibility of Children 23
- Bruce Lesley
- 4. Whose Vision of Racial Equity?: Reinventing Education Policy in Post–Civil Rights America 41
- Sonya Douglass and Anna Kushner
- 5. Developing Policy for the Whole Child 58
- Linda Darling-Hammond and Channa Mae Cook
- 6. Starting in School: Education Policies to Dismantle Systemic Racism 76
- Tyrone C. Howard
- 7. Youths' Health and Learning Connection 92
- Alexandra Mays and Rochelle Davis
- 8. Air Pollution, Exposure to Contaminants, and Education Policy 109
- Sara Grineski and Timothy Collins
- 9. Promoting Equity and Justice Through Integrated Schools and Communities 133
- Jennifer B. Ayscue and Erica Frankenberg
- 10. Housing Strategies as Education Policy 154
- Megan Gallagher
- 11. Reimagining School Safety During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call for Policy Strategies to Address Racial and Social Justice 174
- Heather M. Reynolds and Ron Avi Astor
- 12. Toward Transformative Justice in School Finance 194
- Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos, Danielle Farrie, and David M. Quinn
- 13. Youth Wildin' in the (Re)Shaping of Policy: Toward a Critical Model of Racial Justice and Community Accountability 212
- Justin A. Coles, Keisha L. Green, and Jamila Lyiscott
- 14. Youth Incarceration and Education Policy 232
- Angela James
- 15. Students Experiencing Homelessness: A National Crisis 251
- Matthew H. Morton, Earl J. Edwards, and Melissa Kull
- 16. Bringing the Vision Together: How to Reach the Policies We Need 269
- Joseph P. Bishop
- About the Contributors 281
- Index 285
