Full Description
This concise and compelling book outlines the key civil rights conditions that are essential to deeper learning—the skills and knowledge that students need to succeed in 21st-century jobs and life. It describes schools that enable young people, including those traditionally furthest from opportunity, to develop into caring and critical problem solvers, effective communicators, collaborators, and scholars. The book also describes the community and school inequities that have created persistent obstacles to these goals and the civil rights actions that have been and continue to be needed to remove them. These include policies and practices that ensure safe and healthy communities, equitable investments in public schools, supports for competent teachers, strategies for welcoming and nurturing school climates, and innovative curricula. The authors examine the civil-rights-based pathways that lead to these goals, highlighting examples of exemplary schools that offer the kind of deeper learning that engages and empowers students. This successor to Linda Darling-Hammond's Grawemeyer Award-winner, The Flat World and Education, is a big-picture view of what constitutes deeper learning—where it is found and what enables it—and what must be done to address the learning needs of all children.Book Features:
Offers a concise treatment written in a voice that will be accessible to a wide range of readers.
Pulls together three key strands of the learning needs of children (civil rights, educational opportunity, and deeper learning), the distinct inequalities in their delivery, past efforts, and legal and educational paths forward.
Examines neighborhood and environmental inequities that can compromise learning, along with inadequate school funding and segregation.
Looks at the professional teaching quality imbalance between rich and poor districts and the inferior curriculum offerings for marginalized populations.
Includes numerous examples of schools that succeed at deeper learning and equity and explains how they do so.
Contents
ContentsSeries Foreword James A. Banks vii
Foreword Eliza Byard xiii
Acknowledgments xv
1. Introduction 1
Deeper Learning in Action 2
The Civil Rights Foundation 9
2. A Safe and Healthy Community 13
Environmental Injustice and Education: The Case of Flint, Michigan 15
Beyond Flint 19
The Civil Rights Contribution and Road Ahead 22
3. Well-Resourced School Systems 28
The Long-Term Fight for Adequate and Equitable School Resources 28
How School Finance Influences Opportunities for Deeper Learning 30
The Civil Rights Contribution and Road Ahead 33
4. Supportive and Inclusive Schools 39
Why Positive School Climate Matters 39
How School Climate Is Constructed 41
School Climate and Deeper Learning 43
School Exclusion and Discrimination 45
Community Schools and Wraparound Supports 50
The Civil Rights Contribution and Road Ahead 54
5. High-Quality Teaching 59
Teaching for Deeper Learning 59
Access to Well-Prepared Teachers 65
The Civil Rights Contribution and Road Ahead 68
A Marshall Plan for Teaching 71
6. High-Quality Curriculum 73
Inequalities in Access to Deeper Learning 73
How Access to Deeper Learning Can Be Secured 75
The Civil Rights Contribution and Road Ahead 81
7. Conclusion 84
Notes 90
References 98
Index 117
About the Authors 128
