Equality of Educational Opportunity: Race, Gender, & Special Needs
Equality of Educational Opportunity: Race, Gender, & Special Needs
This chapter looks at how issues of race, class, gender, and ableness complicate the equality of educational opportunity. The social and legal dimensions of race and gender equality are examined. The chapter also looks at the legal and social dimensions of equal educational opportunities for special-needs children.
Following the completion of this chapter:
The learner will be able to discuss the legal and social construction of race and how racism impacts educational opportunities.
The learner will be able to explain how the intersection of class with race provides additional limitations upon equal educational opportunity.
The learner will be able to define and discuss desegregation and the educational practices that have led to second-generation segregation.
The learner will be able to discuss the impact gender has upon equal education opportunities and to describe the educational programs that have been used to address gender inequities in education.
The learner will be able to discuss the legal struggle and educational practices that have been implemented in order to address the educational needs of disabled students.
