Right To Education Act

Author : Ruth Colker
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081470848X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disabled Education written by Ruth Colker and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enacted in 1975, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act – now called the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provides all children with the right to a free and appropriate public education. On the face of it, the IDEA is a shining example of law’s democratizing impulse. But is that really the case? In Disabled Education, Ruth Colker digs deep beneath the IDEA’s surface and reveals that the IDEA contains flaws that were evident at the time of its enactment that limit its effectiveness for poor and minority children. Both an expert in disability law and the mother of a child with a hearing impairment, Colker learned first-hand of the Act’s limitations when she embarked on a legal battle to persuade her son’s school to accommodate his impairment. Colker was able to devote the considerable resources of a middle-class lawyer to her struggle and ultimately won, but she knew that the IDEA would not have benefitted her son without her time-consuming and costly legal intervention. Her experience led her to investigate other cases, which confirmed her suspicions that the IDEA best serves those with the resources to advocate strongly for their children. The IDEA also works only as well as the rest of the system does: struggling schools that serve primarily poor students of color rarely have the funds to provide appropriate special education and related services to their students with disabilities. Through a close examination of the historical evolution of the IDEA, the actual experiences of children who fought for their education in court, and social science literature on the meaning of “learning disability,” Colker reveals the IDEA’s shortcomings, but also suggests ways in which resources might be allocated more evenly along class lines.

Author : Kimberly Jenkins Robinson
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479825891
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Federal Right to Education written by Kimberly Jenkins Robinson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the United States can provide equal educational opportunity to every child The United States Supreme Court closed the courthouse door to federal litigation to narrow educational funding and opportunity gaps in schools when it ruled in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez in 1973 that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to education. Rodriguez pushed reformers back to the state courts where they have had some success in securing reforms to school funding systems through education and equal protection clauses in state constitutions, but far less success in changing the basic structure of school funding in ways that would ensure access to equitable and adequate funding for schools. Given the limitations of state school funding litigation, education reformers continue to seek new avenues to remedy inequitable disparities in educational opportunity and achievement, including recently returning to federal court. This book is the first comprehensive examination of three issues regarding a federal right to education: why federal intervention is needed to close educational opportunity and achievement gaps; the constitutional and statutory legal avenues that could be employed to guarantee a federal right to education; and, the scope of what a federal right to education should guarantee. A Federal Right to Education provides a timely and thoughtful analysis of how the United States could fulfill its unmet promise to provide equal educational opportunity and the American Dream to every child, regardless of race, class, language proficiency, or neighborhood.

Author : United States
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Higher Education Opportunity Act written by United States and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kirla Vijaya Kumar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788183703277
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Right to Education Act 2009, Its Implementation as to Social Development in India written by Kirla Vijaya Kumar and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Katharine G. Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108418139
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Economic and Social Rights written by Katharine G. Young and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captures significant transformations in the theory and practice of economic and social rights in constitutional and human rights law.

Author : James Tooley
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 193970913X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beautiful Tree written by James Tooley and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon its release several years ago, The Beautiful Tree was instantly embraced and praised by individuals and organizations across the globe. James Tooley's extraordinary ability to braid together personal experience, community action, individual courage, and family devotion, brought readers to the very heart of education. This book follows Tooley in his travels from the largest shanty town in Africa to the mountains of Gansu, China, and of the children, parents, teachers, and entrepreneurs who taught him that the poor are not waiting for educational handouts. They are building their own schools and learning to save themselves. Now in paperback with a new postscript, The Beautiful Tree is not another book lamenting what has gone wrong in some of the world's poorest communities. It is a book about what is going right, and powerfully demonstrates how the entrepreneurial spirit and the love of parents for their children can be found in every corner of the globe.

Author : Ian Macpherson
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1873927371
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education, Privatisation and Social Justice written by Ian Macpherson and published by Symposium Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The involvement of private actors in education is not new yet in the last decade critical issues have arisen that demand close scrutiny. This volume explores emerging forms of the private through case studies from Africa, South Asia and South East Asia and makes three related observations. First, what is new about these manifestations is their scale, scope and penetration into almost all aspects of the education endeavour – from the administrative apparatus to policymaking, and from formal provision in education settings to out-of-school activities, such as private tutoring. Second, what is particularly controversial about these developments is how education itself is being recast; as a sector it is increasingly being opened up to profit-making and trade, and to agenda-setting by private, commercial interests. Third, the learner is increasingly conceptualised as a consumer, and education a consumer good. The case studies therefore enable us to see more clearly how different forms of the private in education alter what is at stake, for whom, and with what outcomes, and the consequences for individuals and societies. In turn, these raise the very important question about what they mean for our conceptualisations of education, learning and teaching, on the one hand, and for education as a site and means for emancipation, on the other. These are profound social justice concerns, and ones that make this volume distinctive. This book sets out to address these hard, but urgent, questions and will be of interest to academics and students of education, education researchers, government personnel and policymakers.

Author : Fredman, Sandra
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447337654
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human rights and equality in education written by Fredman, Sandra and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of children from minority and disadvantaged groups will never cross the threshold of a classroom. What can human rights contribute to the struggle to ensure that every learner is able to access high quality education? This brilliant interdisciplinary collection explores how a human rights perspective offers new insights and tools into the current obstacles to education. It examines the role of private actors, the need to hold states to account for the quality of education, how to strike a balance between religion, culture and education, the innovative responses needed to guarantee girls’ right to education and the role of courts. This unique book draws together contributors who have been deeply involved in this field from both developing and developed countries which enriches the understanding and remedial approaches to tackle current obstacles to universal education.

Author : Chaise LaDousa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000407853
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Education, and Identity written by Chaise LaDousa and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines medium of instruction in education and studies its social, economic, and political significance in the lives of people living in South Asia. It provides insight into the meaning of medium and what makes it so important to identity, aspiration, and inequality. It questions the ideologized associations between education and social and spatial mobility and discusses the gender- and class-based marginalization that comes with vernacular-medium education. The volume also considers how policy measures, such as the Right to Education (RTE) Act in India, have failed to address the inequalities brought by medium in schools, and investigates questions on language access, inclusion, and rights. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews, the book will be indispensable for students and scholars of anthropology, education studies, sociolinguistics, sociology, and South Asian studies. It will also appeal to those interested in language and education in South Asia, especially the role of language in the reproduction of inequality.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Education
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1322 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1966 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Education and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: