Includes bibliographical references (pages 98-116) and index.
Contents:
Series foreword / James A. Banks -- Foreword / Eliza Byard -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Deeper learning in action -- The civil rights foundation -- 2. A safe and healthy community -- Environmental injustice and education: the case of Flint, Michigan -- Beyond Flint -- The civil rights contribution and road ahead -- 3. Well-resourced school systems -- The long-term fight for adequate and equitable school resources -- How school finance influences opportunities for deeper learning -- The civil rights contribution and road ahead -- 4. Supportive and inclusive schools -- Why positive school climate matters -- How school climate is constructed -- School climate and deeper learning -- School exclusion and discrimination -- Community schools and wraparound supports -- The civil rights contribution and road ahead -- 5. High-quality teaching -- Teaching for deeper learning -- Access to well-prepared teachers -- The civil rights contribution and road ahead -- A Marshall plan for teaching -- 6. High-quality curriculum -- Inequalities in access to deeper learning -- How access to deeper learning can be secured -- The civil rights contribution and road ahead -- 7. Conclusion.
Summary:
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.
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