Deficit thinking is a pseudoscience founded on racial and class bias. It" blames the victim"
for school failure instead of examining how schools are structured to prevent poor students …

In this hard-hitting history of" the gospel of education," W. Norton Grubb and Marvin
Lazerson reveal the allure, and the fallacy, of the longstanding American faith that more …

Schools and Societies provides a synthesis of key issues in the sociology of education,
focusing on American schools while offering a global, comparative context. Acknowledged …

Can money buy high-quality education? Studies find only a weak relationship between
public school funding and educational outcomes. In The Money Myth, W. Norton Grubb …

In May 2000, a class action lawsuit on behalf of California's public school students, Williams
v. State of California, was filed in state court in an effort to make the state address inequities …

Most research on the association between school resources and student outcomes has
concentrated on finances as measured in dollars. This study takes a fresh look at the issue …

▪ Abstract After describing many of the features that structure educational opportunity, and
how race interacts with these structures, we briefly relate a set of important orienting …

California's unique education finance system combines general state support for school
districts that is based on complex constitutional provisions, numerous state categorical aid …

Surely revenues are central to the quality of schooling; nearly everybody thinks so.
Generations of reformers have come along, each needing more money. Advocates for equity …

In recent decades, the “cocoon of localism” that for so long shielded educational
policymaking from broader societal agendas and competing solutions for school …