Advancing fairness and success in America’s diversified faculties illustrates how educators, scholars, households and group companions can paintings in strategic how you can construct on social, cultural, and ethnic range to boost academic fairness and success. by way of drawing at the most modern facts on demographic switch, buildings of tradition and cultural distinction, and the politics of faculty reform in city, rural, and suburban institution groups, this quantity appears towards ideas and methods for significant academic development.

Contributors contemplate either the variety of sweet sixteen and households served in public colleges, and the tradition of U.S. education, highlighting the impact of coverage and reform agendas; scholars’ identities and business enterprise; reports and techniques of various educators; and the workings of powerful university partnerships. Chapters additionally concentrate on these frequently neglected in academic scholarship reminiscent of local americans, scholars experiencing poverty and/or homelessness, Muslim scholars, scholars with designated wishes, and scholars and educators who're lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or queer. In all, this edited assortment stresses the necessity for prime quality schooling that's inclusive, culturally responsive and unifying so all scholars can adventure educational luck. This booklet is a significant source for educators, policymakers, and community-based leaders drawn to doing such transformative paintings.