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Equity After Katrina
VUE Number 10, Winter 06
This issue of Voices in Urban Education looks at the deeply entrenched educational inequities highlighted by Hurricane Katrina and at how we can ensure equity and excellence for all children.
- Educational Equity, after Katrina (full text) by Robert Rothman
- Now They're Wet: Hurricane Katrina as Metaphor for Social and Educational Neglect (excerpt) by Gloria Ladson-Billings
- The Real Crisis in Education: Failing to Link Excellence and Equity (excerpt) by Charles V. Willie
- Segregation and Its Calamitous Effects: America's "Apartheid" Schools (full text with
audio clips) by Jonathan Kozol - Transformation, Not Tinkering: School Reform after Hurricane Katrina (excerpt) by Dennie Palmer Wolf and Hal Smith
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Getting to Equity
VUE Number 11, Spring 06
This issue of Voices in Urban Education looks at the difficult conversations and actions that must take place to get to true equity and excellence for all young people.
- New Ways to Talk about Equity (full text) by Robert Rothman
- Broaching the Subject: How to Have a Conversation about Equity and Excellence (full text with audio clips) by Linda Powell Pruitt and Kenneth W. Jones
- Honesty, Scholarship, and Dialogue: Going to Scale or Cultural Transformation? (excerpt) by Jonny Skye Njie
- First Ask the Students: A New Lens on Equity and Excellence in Public Schools (excerpt with student photos
) by Adam Levner - Coming Together: Looking across Sectors for Answers to the Dropout Question (excerpt) by Monica Teixeira de Sousa, Michael D. Évora, Tonya M. Glantz, Brother Michael Reis, and Mike Capalbo
- The Role of National Organizations and the Federal Government in Promoting Equity and Excellence (excerpt) by Michael Holzman
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