All Things Being Equal Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time

Name: All Things Being Equal Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time
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ISBN: 9781595582102

ISBN-10: 159558210X

ISBN-13: 9781595582102

Edition: 2007

Authors: Brian Smedley, Alan Jenkins, Bill Lan Lee

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Eight sparkling essays by leading thinkers on how to give all americans a fair shake, published with a hot new social change group. "If we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we've left behind."Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. When we talk about uninsured kids, dozens to a classroom, being taught by teachers with no expertise in their field; about mass incarceration with no rehabilitation; about real estate brokers or employment firms that continue to discriminate into the twenty-first century; about housing programs that reinforce segregation and fail to connect willing workers with the employers who need them, we are mainly talking…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 11/30/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 246
Size: 6.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgment


Introduction: Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time




You Can Take It with You: Income and Wealth Across Generations




Educational Quality and Equality: What It Will Take to Leave No Child Behind




Connecting Families to Opportunity: The Next Generation of Housing Mobility Policy




Reducing Incarceration to Expand Opportunity




Why Health-Care Equity Is Essential to Opportunity-and How to Get There




Measuring the Extent and Forms of Discrimination in the Marketplace: Lessons from Paired-Testing Research




Finding America: Creating Educational Opportunity for Our Newest Citizens



Notes


About the Contributors