Embracing Race: Why We Need Race-Conscious Education Policy

By Michele S. Moses

Book Overview

With clarity, passion, and creativity, Michele Moses offers a new and promising lens for viewing the unsolved issues of race and education. In this book, Moses provides a comprehensive examination of four major race-conscious education policies: bilingual education, multicultural curricula, affirmative action, and remedial education. She argues, convincingly, that such policies are critical to fostering self-determination and personal autonomy in students who would otherwise be left with a deficient education.

Presenting a strong, theoretically grounded case for race-conscious education policies, this volume offers a new framework for examining the complex interaction between race, education, opportunities, and justice.

Some of the important questions addressed in this volume include:

What must the educational system do to promote social justice for students of color and poor students?What is required to help these students to develop self-determination?How will race-conscious education policies help to provide a fair education for all students?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807742376
• ISBN13: 9780807742372
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"