Commemorating 60 Years of Brown v. Board of Education - A Symposium (SC): Inequality and Schooling

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In The Tyranny of the Majority, Lani Guinier offers a powerful, principled critique of American democracy. She argues for a standard of fundamental fairness in comparison to which the current electoral and legislative systems are procedurally unfair. These are the controversial essays that led to President Bill Clinton's withdrawal of his nomination for Guinier as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

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Guinier, Fine, and Balin dare us to question what it means to become qualified, what a fair goal in education might be, and what we can learn from the experience of women law students about teaching and evaluating students in general.

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In 1993, President Bill Clinton nominated his old friend and classmate Lani Guinier to the prestigious and crucial post of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. The nomination sparked a firestorm of controversy, and was eventually withdrawn. Now, Lani Guinier breaks her silence in an insider's account of what really happened behind the closed doors of the Oval Office, the Justice Department, and the U.S. Senate.

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Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievement has diverted us from tackling pervasive inequalities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century.

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While much is known about the critical importance of educative experiences outside of school, little is known about the social systems, community programs, and everyday practices that can facilitate learning outside of the classroom. Thinking Comprehensively About Education sheds much-needed light on those systems, programs, and practice through identifying and describing the resources that enable optimal human learning and development. As such, the book offers a public policy framework that can enable a truly comprehensive educational system.

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Risk, Schooling, and Equity offers insights from a range of theoretical and practical viewpoints into current conceptions of risk and its effect on access to opportunity. The authors challenge existing frameworks and approaches, discuss how children and youth experience and live with risk in and out of school, and suggest ways to reduce institutional barriers to students' full engagement in school. By examining risk at different levels and through different lenses, the volume provides a critical look at both the issues and the venues that allow us to understand the problems that persist as well as the opportunities, spaces, and places for change.