Equity Issues for Today's Educational Leaders: Meeting the Challenge of Creating Equitable Schools for All

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. The meaning of equity in creating and leading equitable schools: revitalizing a democratic principle / Patrick M. Jenlink Preparing democratic educational leaders: an equity-based approach / Patrick M. Jenlink Meeting the challenge of ending gender bias in public education / Diane Trautman and Sandra Stewart Educational equity and school choice: the effect of voucher programs on access to an equitable education and the role of the school leader / C. Craig Coleman Achievement equity and the gap that divides / Lee Stewart Educational equity and the special needs student / Dalane Bouillion Addressing equity and social justice issues for English language learners: using reflection and criticality / Julia Ballenger and Sharon Ninness Equity and the preparation of students for postsecondary education / Betty J. Alford Diversity, equity, and the importance of culturally responsive educational leaders / Janet Tareilo Coda: the equity problem and the work of educational leaders / Patrick M. Jenlink. 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. The underlying purpose of the Equity Issues for Today's Educational Leaders is to illuminate and critique, as well as draw to the foreground, both historical 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.