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Changing Attitudes. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2008, Pages: 56
Public education in the United States has undergone
numerous changes with the onset of No Child Left
Behind. Through an analysis of Congressional
rhetoric regarding public school in the context of
racial equality, three terms emerge as reoccurring
concepts that drive discussions on contemporary
educational conversations: narrowing the gap,
disadvantaged students, and accountability. Jennifer
Richert has designed this study to determine whether
the way politicians in U.S. Congress use these terms
have racial undertones that ultimately work to
maintain a culture of minority oppression. This
study opens with an introduction describing her
personal interest, followed with an extensive
literature review regarding educational inequality.
It then moves into an analysis of the three key
terms: narrowing the gap, disadvantaged students,
and accountability through the lens of Critical Race
Theory.
Richert calls on a nation to self-reflect and to re-
examine the future of education in the context of
race.
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