Civil Rights Road to Deeper Learning
Book Features:
- Offers a concise treatment written in a voice that will be accessible to a wide range of readers.
- Pulls together three key strands of the learning needs of children (civil rights, educational opportunity, and deeper learning), the distinct inequalities in their delivery, past efforts, and legal and educational paths forward.
- Examines neighborhood and environmental inequities that can compromise learning, along with inadequate school funding and segregation.
- Looks at the professional teaching quality imbalance between rich and poor districts and the inferior curriculum offerings for marginalized populations.
- Includes numerous examples of schools that succeed at deeper learning and equity and explains how they do so.
Kia Darling-Hammond is author of the Bridge to Thriving Framework(c) and CEO of Wise Chipmunk, through which she offers learning opportunities and advising to educators, organizations, and other entities, including the Congressional Black Mental Health Brain Trust. Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, founding president of the Learning Policy Institute, past-president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and author of The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future, which received the 2012 Grawemeyer Award in Education. She received the 2022 Yidan Prize for Education Research. She received the 2023 AERA Distinguished Public Service Award.