Equity Issues for Today's Educational Leaders: Meeting the Challenge of Creating Equitable Schools for All [Paperback]

At a time when America's schools face many of the most difficult challenges ever, the authors ofEquity Issues for Today's Educational Leadersreturn the reader to an agenda for addressing equity in schools, emphasizing the need to reexamine past reform efforts and the work ahead for educational leaders in reshaping schools and schooling-in concert, attending to the social responsibility of furthering the ideals of a democratic society.
The underlying purpose of theEquity Issues for Today's Educational Leadersis to illuminate and critique, as well as draw to the foreground, both historical and contemporary factors that have contributed to issues of equity in schools. Importantly, the contributors provide a survey of the issues as well as content and pedagogical tools for students and practitioners of leadership to study and understand their work in dealing with equity issues against a backdrop of a changing America and the demands placed on contemporary schools.

A profoundly important book that focuses on equity issues prevalent in our schools today. In this era of standards-based accountability, this collection of essays provides a greatly needed critical review of the challenges educators face in creating equitable schools for all students. As a university professor involved in leadership preparation, I am grateful for this collection and look forward to incorporating this work into my classroom teaching. Lisa Ann McClard Bertrand, associate professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling, Southeast Missouri State University

There have been strong criticisms of educational scholars writing about social justice issues alleging a disconnection from the real world of educational leadership. This work bridges tló–