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-----Original Message-----
From: Felice Yeskel [mailto:fyeskel at stuaf.umass.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:58 PM
To: Dana Gillette
Subject: Class in Education a special issue of Equity & Excellence in
Education is now available



 Leading Education Journal Announces Special Issue on Social Class in the
Classroom


Equity & Excellence in Education, a leading journal in examining
inequalities in classroom settings, is pleased to announce a special issue
on “Class in Education,” published as Issue 1 of Volume 41.

The special issue is an important advancement toward the journal’s goal of
increasing the national dialogue on social justice issues at all levels of
schooling. “Class impacts education in a myriad of ways, including issues of
access, academic preparation, curricular content, pedagogy, and standards,”
says Dr. Felice Yeskel, Guest Editor for the special issue. “There are also
many ways in which schools reproduce existing inequalities, including issues
of school funding, teacher training and pay, accessibility to role models,
and discrepancies between public and private schools.” Dr. Yeskel is the
Executive Director of Class Action, a national resource center on class that
provides individuals, organizations, and institutions with the tools and
resources needed to work toward eliminating classism. (Resources for
educators and the general public are available at the organization’s
website: http://www.classism.org) 
The special issue offers a variety of perspectives on these complicated and
multifaceted issues. Articles address such topics as:
·      social mores that interfere with student potential;
·      trends in administrative power-brokering in postsecondary education;
·      cross-class interactions that highlight class reproduction in public
schools;
·      a reassessment of pedagogical approaches to overcoming class
discrepancies;
·      expectations along different social strata.  
“Class mythologies reinforce the notion that the rewards of our economic
system are primarily based on real individual differences in ability,
creativity, and effort--not structural inequalities and hereditary
advantage,” says Yeskel. “We want to believe that education is the key to
equal opportunity, but the unquestioning acceptance of these myths masks the
barriers to equal educational access.”  
The editors and contributors hope to provide an economic and social context
for the necessary discussions on class in education, the definitions of
class, an overview of how class defines education and how education defines
class, the invisibility of class, and new ways that class should be
considered. “Class is the elephant in the classroom, impacting students and
teachers alike but little acknowledged and rarely talked about. This special
issue makes an important contribution to the ongoing effort to fulfill the
promise of equal education for students from all backgrounds,” says Dr.
Yeskel. 
Equity & Excellence in Education publishes articles based on scholarly
research utilizing qualitative or quantitative methods, as well as essays
that describe and assess practical efforts to achieve educational equity.
The journal focuses on a range of topics related to equity, equality, and
social justice in K-12 or postsecondary schooling, and is especially
concentrated upon social justice issues in school systems, individual
schools, classrooms, and the social justice factors that contribute to
inequality in learning for students from diverse social group backgrounds. 

Equity & Excellence in Education
ISSN Print 1066-5684
ISSN Online 1547-3457
Volume 41, 2008, 4 issues per year
Special Issue: Class in Education
Contents
Coming to Class: Looking at Education through the Lens of Class Introduction
to the Class and Education Special Issue, Felice Yeskel
Class Struggle in Higher Education, Dan Clawson and Mishy Leiblum
Pedagogy of the Alienated: Can Freirian Teaching Reach Working-Class
Students?, Jonathan Martin
The Dynamics of Social Reproduction: How Class Works at a State College and
Elite Private College, Maynard Seider
"In the real world no one drops their standards for you": Academic Rigor in
A College Worker Education Program, Emily Schnee
Double Jeopardy: The Compounding Effects of Class and Race in School
Mathematics, Jae Hoon Lim
Teachers in Class, Jane Van Galen
Race, Social Background, and School Choice Options, Kimberly A. Goyette
Peddling Poverty for Profit: Elements of Oppression in Ruby Payne's
Framework, Paul C. Gorski


Equity & Excellence in Education, published quarterly. To order the special
issue, Class in Education, Volume 41, Issue 1, for $25/£16, please visit the
journal’s website at  <http://www.eee-journal.com/> www.eee-journal.com, and
click on News and Offers.  

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