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Solving Disproportionality and Achieving Equity: A Leader's Guide to Using Data to Change Hearts and Minds de Edward A. Fergus

Solving Disproportionality and Achieving Equity: A Leader's Guide to Using Data to Change Hearts and Minds

Autor Edward A. Fergus
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 ian 2017

Evoluția managementului educațional din ultimele decenii a trecut de la simpla administrare a resurselor la o analiză profundă a echității sistemice, reflectând o nevoie urgentă de a corecta disparitățile de tratament în funcție de rasă și statut social. Remarcăm în lucrarea lui Edward A. Fergus, Solving Disproportionality and Achieving Equity, o abordare riguroasă care transformă cifrele reci ale statisticilor federale într-un plan de acțiune moral și pedagogic. Subliniem faptul că autorul nu se limitează la a constata că elevii de culoare sunt suspendați disproporționat, ci investighează rădăcinile psihologice și structurale ale acestui fenomen.

Această lucrare extinde cadrul propus de Implicit Bias in Schools de Gina Laura Gullo cu date noi din studiile de caz recente și o metodologie aplicată pentru liderii care trebuie să gestioneze nu doar politici, ci și mentalități. Structura cărții este una progresivă: începe cu o perspectivă istorică asupra segregării și integrării, continuă cu identificarea prejudecăților care afectează practica școlară — precum „deficit-thinking” — și culminează cu un ghid de competențe de investigare pentru lideri. Credem că elementul distinctiv al volumului este capacitatea de a oferi instrumente concrete, precum liste de verificare și formulare de monitorizare, care transformă teoria echității în practică administrativă zilnică. Spre deosebire de alte manuale teoretice, Solving Disproportionality and Achieving Equity servește drept foaie de parcurs pentru transformarea unei școli într-o instituție ghidată de echitate, unde datele sunt folosite pentru a demonta, nu pentru a valida, barierele sistemice.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781506311258
ISBN-10: 1506311253
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru directorii de școli și factorii de decizie care observă discrepanțe în datele privind disciplina sau performanța elevilor. Cititorul câștigă o metodologie clară pentru a identifica prejudecățile implicite din propria instituție și primește instrumentele practice necesare pentru a elabora un plan de echitate sustenabil. Este o resursă pragmatică pentru trecerea de la bune intenții la rezultate măsurabile în incluziunea educațională.

Despre autor

Edward A. Fergus este un expert recunoscut în domeniul echității educaționale, axându-se pe modul în care politicile școlare și prejudecățile afectează parcursul elevilor marginalizați. Cu o vastă experiență în analizarea datelor privind disproporționalitatea, el a colaborat cu numeroase districte școlare pentru a implementa reforme structurale. Lucrarea sa de față, publicată de Corwin, reflectă expertiza sa în utilizarea cercetării pentru a sprijini liderii școlari în crearea unor medii de învățare mai juste și mai transparente.

Descriere scurtă

When the numbers don’t lie, this is your guide to doing what’s right
According to federal data, African American students are more than three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended or expelled. As a school leader, what do you do when your heart is in the right place, but your data show otherwise? 

In Solving Disproportionality and Achieving Equity, Edward Fergus takes us on a journey into disproportionality by engaging our hearts and minds on the presence of biases that create barriers to the success of students of color. If your school is faced with a disproportionate rate of suspensions, gifted program enrollment, or special education referrals for students of color, this book shows how you can uncover the root causes and rally your staff to face the challenge head on. You will:
  • Understand through compelling vignettes and case studies how bias affects policies and practices even in good schools
  • Know what questions to ask and what data to analyze to get to the root cause
  • Create your own road map for becoming an equity-driven school, with staff activities, data collection forms, checklists, and progress monitoring tools
If you are interested in developing a deep understanding of the policy, practice, and beliefs necessary for schools to address disproportionality and achieve equity, this book delivers all that and more.

"Through careful analysis of data obtained from real cases, Edward Fergus shows how disproportionality is manifest and how it can be thoughtfully addressed. For educators and policy makers seeking solutions to these complex issues, this book will be an invaluable resource." 
—Pedro Noguera, Distinguished Professor of Education
UCLA, Graduate Schools of Education and Information Studies

Recenzii

"Throughout the country, a growing number of educators have come to the realization that disproportionality in the placement of children of color in special education, and in school discipline practices, is a vital equity issue that must be confronted. In this important new book, Dr. Edward Fergus explains why this issue is so important and he shows what educators can do to solve the problem. Through careful analysis of data obtained from real cases, he shows how the problem is manifest and how it can be thoughtfully addressed. For educators and policy makers seeking solutions to these complex issues, this book will be an invaluable resource."
"Solving Disproportionality and Achieving Equity addresses burning and significant needs and issues in the field, including areas in which districts are facing legal requirements for action. The synthesis of research, theory, application, with an acknowledgment of the interpersonal and emotional dimensions of this work all contribute to its value."
"I believe that this text has the potential to become a bible for every school leader who truly wants to examine the inequities in schools and then move forward with a comprehensive plan applying a sound analysis of the data."

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Changing Landscape of Teaching Force and Its Effect on Disproportionality
The Backdrop of the Integration Project Framework
Organization of the Book
Sample Road Map for Creating an Equity-Driven School
Chapter 1. Social Integration and Intensified Segregation Leading to Disproportionality
Post–Brown v. Topeka Board of Education Integration Patterns
Integration Project: Patterns of Student Enrollment Demographics
Integration Project: Patterns of Teacher and Principal Demographics
Chapter 2. Knowing the Bias-Based Beliefs in Disproportionality
Bias-Based Beliefs in Pedagogy and School Practice: How Does It Show Up in Schools?
Colorblindness Belief
Deficit-Thinking Belief
Poverty-Disciplining Belief
Chapter 3. Leadership Inquiry Skills for Building Equity Focus
Section 1: Understanding Your Data and Data System Capacity
Section 2: Practicing Analysis and Interpretation of Data: Case Studies
Chapter 4. A Process for Identifying Disproportionality and Building an Equity Plan
Step 1: Identifying Your Starting Place
Step 2: Root Cause Process for Understanding Disproportionality Problems
Step 3: Monitoring Equity Work: 3- to 5-Year Span of Work
Step 4: Progress-Monitoring Tools: Monthly Data Calendar
Additional Equity Examinations
Chapter 5. Building an Equity Belief School Climate
Leading Equity Competency 1: Know How to Manage Race Dialogues
Leading Equity Competency 2: Know How to Manage the Comfortable and Uncomfortable Tensions of Learning and Practice
Stage 1 Activities: Building Universal Equity Principles
Stage 2 Activities: Monthly or Quarterly Sessions on Bias-Based Beliefs
Other Ongoing Activities for Replacing Biased Beliefs
Application Activities
Appendixes
1. Data Inventory Worksheet
2. Planning Sheet for Addressing Beliefs and Building Equity Principles
3. Exit Ticket
4. Definitions of Educational Equity Worksheet
5. Applying Definitions of Educational Equity
6. Applying Definitions of Educational Equity: Homework Worksheet
7. Building Our Universal Equity Principles Worksheet
8. Shifting Deficit-Thinking Worksheet
9. Shifting Deficit-Thinking Survey Worksheet
10. Definition Flashcards
11. Shifting Poverty-Disciplining Belief Statements Worksheet
12. Shifting Poverty-Disciplining Belief Statements Survey Worksheet
13. Meritocracy Line Exercise
14. Dual-Axis Model of Vulnerability
15. Dual-Axis Model of Vulnerability Application Worksheet
16. Racial Timeline Worksheet
17. Racial and Ethnic Group Worksheet
18. Shifting Common Colorblindness Statements Worksheet
19. Shifting Common Colorblindness Statements Survey Worksheet
20. Cultural Responsibility Beliefs Worksheet
21. Looking at Books Worksheet
22. Observing Classroom Environments Worksheet
23. Equity Resources for Curricular, Culture/Climate, and Instruction
References
Index

Notă biografică

Edward Fergus is Associate Professor of Policy, Organizational and Leadership Studies at the College of Education at Temple University. Dr. Fergus¿ current work is on the intersection of educational policy and outcomes with a specific focus on Black and Latino boys¿ academic and social engagement outcomes, disproportionality in special education and suspensions, and school climate conditions. Most recently served as Deputy Director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education (2004-2013), and as a program director at a Children¿s Aid Society Community School and later as an Education Specialist with the Children¿s Aid Society National Technical Assistance Center (2000-2001 and 2002-2004). He has published numerous articles and is the author of Skin Color and Identity Formation: Perceptions of Opportunity and Academic Orientation among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth (Routledge Press, 2004), co-editor of Invisible No More: Disenfranchisement of Latino Men and Boys (Routledge Press, 2011), and co-author of Schooling For Resilience: Improving Trajectory of Black and Latino Boys (Harvard Education Press, 2014). Fergus serves on various boards such as Partnership for Afterschool Education (PASE), NY State Governor¿s Juvenile Justice Advisory Group (2010-present), appointed in 2011 to the Yonkers Public Schools Board of Education (2011-2013), advisory board member of the Mayor¿s Leadership Taskforce on Suspension and School Climate (2015-2016) and Young Men¿s Initiative (2016-present), and is an expert consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division on Educational Opportunities (2014-present). Fergus also provides consultant support to state education departments on disproportionality state performance plan indicators, specifically development of plans for addressing disproportionality.

Dr. Fergus received a bachelor¿s degree in Political Science and Education from Beloit College and a doctorate in Educational Policy and Social Foundations from the University of Michigan.

Descriere

This text is a journey into disproportionality through understanding biases that create barriers for vulnerable populations. It gives adaptive strategies for systemic change and technical skills for using data to promote equity.