Other People's Children: The Battle for Justice and Equality in New Jersey's Schools (Book) [show prizes]
Title: Other People's Children: The Battle for Justice and Equality in New Jersey's Schools
Author: Deborah Yaffe
Abstract: Forty-five states have faced legal challenges to their school funding systems, but New Jersey’s decades-long conflict is one of the oldest and longest-lasting. Drawing on thousands of pages of court and archival records and on interviews with nearly 200 people, Other People’s Children: The Battle for Justice and Equality in New Jersey’s Schools is the first book to tell the story of this epic struggle over a rich society’s responsibility for the education of the poor. The book interweaves a public story — an account of legal and political wrangling over laws and money — with the private stories of the 21 inner-city children who were named plaintiffs in New Jersey’s two school funding lawsuits, Abbott v. Burke and its 1970s predecessor, Robinson v. Cahill. Other People's Children is not a scholarly study; it's a journalistic work intended for a general audience.
Year: 2007
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/other-peoples-children-the-battle-for-justice-and-equality-in-new-jerseys-schools/oclc/232362487&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: World Cat.org link
Secondary URL: http://www.deborahyaffe.com
Secondary URL Description: Author's web site, which includes book excerpts, reading group guide, author's biography, and a timeline and brief history of New Jersey's school funding battles
Access Model: Available to the general public in print and ebook editions
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0813542058

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