Anti-racist educational leadership and policy: Addressing racism in public education

Abstract

"Anti-Racist Educational Leadership and Policy helps educational leaders better comprehend the racial implications and challenges of the current educational policy landscape. Each chapter unpacks a policy issue such as school choice, school closures, standardized testing, discipline, and school funding, and analyzes it through the racialized and market-driven lenses of the current leadership context. Full of real examples, this book equips aspiring school leaders with the skills to question how a policy addresses or fails to address racism, action-oriented strategies to develop anti-racist solutions, and the tools to encourage their school community to promote racial equity. This important book demystifies a complex policy context and prepares current and future teacher leaders, principals, and superintendents to lead their schools towards more equitable practice"--Provided by publisher. Anti-racism and color-evasiveness in a neoliberal context : an introduction -- How school leaders respond to demographic change -- School choice and who has a right to choose -- The racial politics of school closure and community response -- Standardized testing and the racial implications of data use -- School funding and the need for resource distribution -- Racism and school discipline : from schools to prison, or schools as a prison -- A protocol for anti-racist policy decision-making in educational leadership.