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Education and Justice: A View from the Back of the Busreviewed by Kenneth A. Strike - 2001 Title: Education and Justice: A View from the Back of the Bus Author(s): Edmund W. Gordon Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807738441, Pages: 224, Year: 1999 Search for book at Amazon.com This fine book by one of America’s
most eminent educational psychologists as well as one of its
foremost African American educators consists in a collection of
essays spanning twenty-five years of Edmund Gordon’s work.
The essays have been reworked, occasionally it appears by a second
author, so as to hang together as a single work.
The essays are grouped into three major sections. Part I
entitled A View from the Back of the Bus, is used to "pose
the problems of diversity, equity, and excellence within their
sociopolitical contexts." This section frames the material in the
rest of the book. Its essays include a useful and critical
discussion of the view of intelligence in Herrnstein and
Murray’s (1994) The Bell Curve and an especially
valuable discussion of cultural dissonance as a risk factor in the
development of students. The essays seek to bring together
discussions of equity for at risk students, multiculturalism, and
school reform.
Part II entitled Toward Equity in Educational Achievement
is used to develop a... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Kenneth Strike
University of Maryland E-mail Author Kenneth A. Strike is a professor at the University of Maryland. His field is philosophy of Education and his areas of interest include professional ethics, school reform, leadership, and educational policy. Over the years he has written on such topics as desegregation, affirmative action, church-state issues, political socialization and citizenship, and school reform. He is currently working on a project entitled “Community, State and Market: An
Alternative View of School Reform” funded by the Spencer Foundation.
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