EDUC 215: Educational Inequality and Social Transformation in Schools: Context & Overviews

This population is unique in that its educational history includes as law and public policy the systematic long-term denial of the acquisition of knowledge. This reference tool contains several hundred topic entries in alphabetical order that provide local, regional, and national information, but biographical entries are fewer, largely because they are available in other resources.

Exploring the intersection of gender and education, this work includes entries that deal with educational theories, research, curricula, practices, personnel, and policies, but also with variations in the gendering of education across history and cultural contexts.

The Encyclopedia includes entries on the historical development of the law that impact on its subject matter. Such a broadened perspective places education law in its proper context in the United States legal system.