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Crockett, Michele D.; Buckley, Lecretia A. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2009
This article is about locating equity concerns "within" epistemic processes in school mathematics professional development. The professional development literature indicates a focus on subject matter and pedagogical content knowledge without explicit attention to equity concerns as they arise in professional development practice. Though scholars…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Educational Practices, Mathematics Education
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Luckett, Kathy – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2001
Examines the relationship between the dual goals of equity and development for public higher education (HE) in post-apartheid South Africa. Without state intervention, globalization of the South African economy and HE provision may result in increased inequality in access to HE, information, and technology (and thus, productivity and income).…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Apartheid, Black Students, Change Strategies
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Fuentes, Luis – Equity and Excellence in Education, 1994
There is no hiding the underlying assumptions of Anglo cultural superiority in our school systems. Educators must come to see things from the points of view of students, recognizing the importance of parent participation, the reality of minority underrepresentation, and the necessity of minority teacher recruitment and retention. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Anglo Americans, Cultural Awareness
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Gerrard, Linda Couture – Equity and Excellence in Education, 1994
Develops an overview of the issues surrounding the inclusion of special education students in regular classes, and reframes the debate as an issue of social justice that states that separate education of special education students is not only unequal but is also detrimental to the development of all students. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Disabilities, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
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Love, Barbara J. – Equity and Excellence in Education, 2004
This essay provides a Critical Race Theory (CRT) analysis of current discussions of the "achievement gap"as the latest incarnation of the "white intellectual superiority/African American intellectual inferiority" notion that is a mainstay of "majoritarian storytelling" in U.S. culture. A critical race counter-story chronicles both the historical…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, African American Students, Access to Education, Court Litigation