Educating a New Majority: Transforming America's Educational System for Diversity (Jossey Bass Education Series) - Hardcover

Rendon, Laura I.; Hope, Richard O.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 078790130X ISBN 13: 9780787901301

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1995

Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of how well our educational system--from kindergarten through college--serves disadvantaged minority students, and offers a wealth of ideas for strengthening the entire educational pipeline.

About this title

About the Author

RICHARD O. HOPE is vice president and director of the Woodrow Wilson Program in Public Policy and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. From 1988 to 1990, he was executive director of the Quality Education for Minorities Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

From the Back Cover

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of how well our educational system―from kindergarten through college―serves disadvantaged minority students, and offers a wealth of ideas for strengthening the entire educational pipeline. In twenty original chapters by the country's best thinkers in educational policy throughout the K―16 system, the book presents a holistic, highly coordinated, systemwide approach to improving the education of minority students.

From the Inside Flap

By the year 2012, students of color are expected to make up twenty-four percent of the under eighteen population in the United States. But despite some progress in college participation and test scores, minority students appear to be getting the least of what American education has to offer. A new vision of educating diverse peoples is needed if we are to tap all of our country's human potential so that we can continue to prosper and compete in the global arena. Educating a New Majority provides a comprehensive assessment of how well our educational system―from kindergarten through college―serves disadvantaged minority students, and offers a wealth of ideas for strengthening the entire educational pipeline. In twenty original chapters by the country's best thinkers in educational policy throughout the K―16 system, the book presents a holistic, highly coordinated, systemwide approach to improving the education of minority students. The authors advocate not only for change within the school, but also for building partnerships between schools and postsecondary institutions as well as alliances with community organizations. And they show why leadership is needed at all levels―schools and colleges, parents, the community, and state and federal agencies―to refashion an educational system that works for all students.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 078790130X
• ISBN 13: 9780787901301
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528