Court-Driven Reform and Equal Educational Opportunity: Centralization, Decentralization, and the Shifting Judicial Role

Autor/in	Superfine, Benjamin Michael
Titel	Court-Driven Reform and Equal Educational Opportunity: Centralization, Decentralization, and the Shifting Judicial Role
Quelle	In: Review of Educational Research, 80 (2010) 1, S.108-137 (30 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0034-6543
DOI	10.3102/0034654309354300
Schlagwörter	Equal Education; School Desegregation; School Choice; Courts; Finance Reform; Educational Finance; Governance; Centralization; Educational Opportunities; Court Litigation; Administrative Organization; Legislation; Federal Legislation; Legal Responsibility; Educational Policy; Public Policy; Researchers; Educational Change; Academic Achievement; Educational Vouchers; Decision Making + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Integrative Schule; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Court; Gerichtshof; Financial reform; Finanzreform; Bildungsfonds; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Centralisation; Zentralisierung; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Rechtsstreit; Gesetzgebungslehre; Bundesrecht; Strafmündigkeit; Politics of education; Öffentliche Ordnung; Researcher; Forscher; Bildungsreform; Schulleistung; Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung
Abstract	Judicial decisions focusing on equal educational opportunity involve significant issues of educational governance and often involve explicit questions about the extent to which authority to make educational decisions should be centralized or decentralized across various institutions and entities. This review aims at clarifying scholars' understanding of court-driven reform of educational governance to leverage equal educational opportunities across the major fields of school desegregation, school finance reform, and school choice. Issues of centralization and decentralization have particularly emerged in courts' approaches to these fields with respect to both the judicial process and the substance of the policies themselves. An examination of these issues reveals a movement toward the decentralization of authority away from the courts that, at times, has reflected a growing judicial awareness of the courts' strengths and weaknesses. Based on this examination, a more effective role for the courts in reforms aimed at promoting equal educational opportunity is considered. (Contains 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10