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Professor Gilberto Conchas is lead editor on a new publication from Routledge Research in Education: The Complex Web of Inequality in North American Schools: Investigating Educational Policies for Social Justice. Co-editors include alumna Briana Hinga, UCI School of Education alumna and assistant professor of Clinical Education, USC Rossier School of Education; Miguel Abad, doctoral student specializing in Educational Policy and Social Context; and Kris Gutierrez, professor and Carol Liu Chair in Educational Policy at UC Berkeley.  Publisher's Summary The Complex Web of Inequality in North American Schools analyzes and challenges the critical gaps and inequalities that persist in the American school system. Showing how historical biases have been inherited in current policies relating to non-dominant youth, the text calls for educational reforms that perform in the name of social justice. This edited collection carefully interrogates how technocratic educational policies and reforms are often unequipped to address the interplay of political, social, economic, ideological factors that are at the roots of educational injustice. Considering the most vulnerable student populations, original case studies explore how inadequate structures, practices, and beliefs have increased marginalization, and highlight those instances in which policy has proved effective in reducing opportunity gaps between economically rich and poor students; between white, Asian, Black and Latino youth; between native English speakers and second language learners; highlighting racial integration and unequal American Indian education; and for students with special educational needs. The insights into such policies shed light on the complex web of historically embedded inequities that continue to shape the construction, roll-out, and consequences of education policy for the most marginalized youth populations today. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Ambitious Imaginations and Education Policy: Swimming Upstream and Unsettling Neoliberal Enclosures PART I: False Choices
PART II: Technical Solutions for Justice Issues
PART III: The Legacy and Futures of Special Education
Professor Gilberto Conchas is lead editor on a new publication from Routledge Research in Education: The Complex Web of Inequality in North American Schools: Investigating Educational Policies for Social Justice. Co-editors include alumna Briana Hinga, UCI School of Education alumna and assistant professor of Clinical Education, USC Rossier School of Education; Miguel Abad, doctoral student specializing in Educational Policy and Social Context; and Kris Gutierrez, professor and Carol Liu Chair in Educational Policy at UC Berkeley.
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