Brown's Wake: The Legacy of America's Educational Landmark - Law & Current Events Analysis for Scholars | Perfect for Legal Studies & Civil Rights Research
Brown's Wake: The Legacy of America's Educational Landmark - Law & Current Events Analysis for Scholars | Perfect for Legal Studies & Civil Rights Research

Brown's Wake: The Legacy of America's Educational Landmark - Law & Current Events Analysis for Scholars | Perfect for Legal Studies & Civil Rights Research" (注:原中文标题部分"Legacies of America's Educational Landmark"已保留英文,因原标题本身为英文书籍名称。使用场景强调学术研究用途,符合法律/时事类书籍的SEO关键词需求)

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What is the legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education? While it is well known for establishing racial equality as a central commitment of American schools, the case also inspired social movements for equality in education across all lines of difference, including language, gender, disability, immigration status, socio-economic status, religion, and sexual orientation. Yet more than a half century after Brown, American schools are more racially separated than before, and educators, parents and policy makers still debate whether the ruling requires all-inclusive classrooms in terms of race, gender, disability, and other differences. In Brown's Wake examines the reverberations of Brown in American schools, including efforts to promote equal opportunities for all kinds of students. School choice, once a strategy for avoiding Brown, has emerged as a tool to promote integration and opportunities, even as charter schools and private school voucher programs enable new forms of self-separation by language, gender, disability, and ethnicity. Martha Minow, Dean of Harvard Law School, argues that the criteria placed on such initiatives carry serious consequences for both the character of American education and civil society itself. Although the original promise of Brown remains more symbolic than effective, Minow demonstrates the power of its vision in the struggles for equal education regardless of students' social identity, not only in the United States but also in many countries around the world. Further, she urges renewed commitment to the project of social integration even while acknowledging the complex obstacles that must be overcome. An elegant and concise overview of Brown and its aftermath, In Brown's Wake explores the broad-ranging and often surprising impact of one of the century's most important Supreme Court decisions.

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In this work, Professor Martha Minow has crafted an excellent, scholarly survey of the setting and subsequent history of the U. S. Supreme Court's unanimous and momentous 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education.Professor Minow examines the uses of Brown by those interested in the educational opportunity aspects of immigration, English as a second language, gender, and sexual identification and orientation. She investigates applications of Brown to educational matters of religion, disability, group-based definition, indigenous culture, and socio-economic status. She considers the evolution of the connections of Brown to issues of "school choice," including vouchers, taxation, and charter schools, the presence of social science research in educational litigation, and the international significance and influence of Brown. And, Professor Minow demonstrates that part of the legacy of Brown is the complication of a central declaration of that decision, viz., that "[s]eparate educational facilities are inherently unequal" (and, therefore, unconstitutional).The decision in Brown v. Board of Education is the genesis of a remarkable array of claimed consequences, ranging, depending upon point of view, from undeniably good, through be-careful-what-you-wish-for, to simply irrational or worse. In Brown's Wake, by Martha Minow, is a concise, accessible, intelligent, reasonable, and easily five-star analysis of that decision's continuing importance in our civilization.
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