Future Policy Directions for Congress in Ensuring Equality of Opportunity: Toward Improved Incentives, Targeting, and Enforcement

Autor/inn/en	DeBray, Elizabeth; Blankenship, Ann Elizabeth
Titel	Future Policy Directions for Congress in Ensuring Equality of Opportunity: Toward Improved Incentives, Targeting, and Enforcement
Quelle	In: Peabody Journal of Education, 88 (2013) 1, S.22-36 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-956X
DOI	10.1080/0161956X.2013.752627
Schlagwörter	Equal Education; Government Role; Federal Government; Federal State Relationship; Educational Policy; Grants; Politics of Education; Educational Research; Research Utilization; Educational Change; Federal Legislation; Educational Legislation; Incentives; Law Enforcement; Federal Aid; Educational Finance; Compensatory Education; Preschool Education; Disabilities; Housing; School Desegregation; School Choice; Community Schools; Charter Schools; Educational Equity (Finance); State Aid; Budgeting; Retrenchment; Elementary Secondary Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bundesregierung; Bund-Länder-Beziehung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Educational policy; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Forschungsumsetzung; Bildungsreform; Bundesrecht; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Anreiz; Gesetzesvollzug; Bildungsfonds; Kompensatorischer Unterricht; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Handicap; Behinderung; Unterkunft; Integrative Schule; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Community school; ; Gemeindeschule; Gemeinschaftsschule; Charter school; Charter-Schule
Abstract	Congress's role in defining and promoting equality of educational opportunity has evolved over the past 55 years since "Brown v. Board of Education." Most recently, all three branches of the federal government have focused more on equality of educational opportunity for "individual" students rather than for protected classes. In this article, the authors combine two different frameworks to assess Congress's evolving role in ensuring equality of educational opportunity for all students--particularly given the new political and economic realities facing the nation. The first is federalism; the second is policy instruments for advancing varied goals in education, which the authors use to examine specific policy domains where Congress might increase its impact on equality of educational opportunity. These domains are concerned with "incentivizing equity" through competitive grants designed to reduce racial and socioeconomic inequality, improving existing categorical grant programs to make them more targeted and efficient, and strengthening enforcement of existing policies and programs. Throughout, the authors consider how recent research about equality of best be brought to bear on congressional priorities. In conclusion, they discuss the political realities facing Congress in 2012 and beyond, including partisanship and the prospect of cuts to pre-K-12 education spending. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10