air pollution
air quality
and children's learning
Black freedom struggle
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civil rights
community safety and equitable opportunities for children in school
COVID
critical youth studies
demographic change
Ed policy
ed policy inequities and Black and Brown majority schools and communities
education policy and conditions outside of school
education policy and equity
education policy and social policies
environmental pollutants
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equitable opportunities and the whole child
equitable outcomes for marginalized children
equitable student supports
food insecurity
high-stakes testing
homelessness
housing and children's academic outcomes
housing conditions
inadequate medical dental and vision care
intersectional approaches to school policy
juvenile justice
K-12 schools and children's learning
K-12 schools and ed policy
positive student behaviors
post-civil rights America
prenatal influences on child development
public health
reinventing education policy
school accountability
school policing
school to prison pipeline
student discipline policies
student mental health
whole child
whole system
Product details
- ISBN 9780807767115
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 Dec 2022
- Publisher: Teachers' College Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Education policies have too often ignored how conditions outside of school can alter life chances for young people, especially students of color, before they even reach the classroom. More recently, COVID-19 has made it impossible to overlook the needs of the whole child, both inside and outside of school. The authors assert that responding to a number of factors like air quality, housing, public health, community safety, segregation, and neighborhood conditions are essential to improving academic outcomes and student health. Our Children Can't Wait urges readers to reconsider what education policy is, what it could be, who it is for, and who should be directly shaping it at all levels of government. Experts present a new equity roadmap by bridging scholarship, ideas, and original thinking on education policy as a vehicle for setting a redemptive path forward for reckoning with race in America.
Book Features:
- Presents a new, evidence-based blueprint for addressing persistent gaps in education opportunity through a number of interrelated social policies.
- Includes contributing authors from 17 organizations and universities, representing a powerful national network of scholars.
- Goes beyond diagnosing or identifying challenges to present solutions in the form of tools and promising models.
- Offers strategies for preventing more students from experiencing homelessness or entering the criminal justice system through strategic investments.
- Addresses timely issues that are in the hearts and minds of many key stakeholders in no small part due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Joseph P. Bishop is the executive director of the Center for the Transformation of Schools and teaches education policy in the School of Education & Information Studies at UCLA.
