ADVANCES IN EDUCATION IN DIVERSE COMMUNITIES: RESEARCH, POLICY AND PRAXIS Series Editor: Carol Camp Yeakey Volume 1: Producing Knowledge, Pursuing Understanding – Edited by Edmund W. Gordon Volume 2: African American Education, Race Community, Inequality and Achievement. A tribute to Edgar G. Epps – Edited by Walter R. Allen, Margaret Beale Spencer and Carla O’Connor Volume 3: Teacher Unions and Education Policy: Retrenchment or Reform? – Edited by Ronald D. Henderson, Wayne J. Urban and Paul Wolman Volume 4: Suffer the Little Children: National and International Dimensions of Child Poverty and Public Policy – Edited by Carol Camp Yeakey, Jeanita W. Richardson and Judith Brooks Buck Volume 5: Higher Education in a Global Society: Achieving Diversity, Equity and Excellence – Edited by Walter R. Allen, Marguerite BonousHammarth and Robert Teranishi ADVANCES IN EDUCATION IN DIVERSE COMMUNITIES: RESEARCH POLICY AND PRAXIS VOLUME 6 POWER, VOICE AND THE PUBLIC GOOD: SCHOOLING AND EDUCATION IN GLOBAL SOCIETIES EDITED BY RODNEY K. HOPSON Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA CAROL CAMP YEAKEY Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA FRANCIS MUSA BOAKARI University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX, USA United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China JAI Press is an imprint of Emerald Group Publishing Limited Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK First edition 2008 Copyright r 2008 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Reprints and permission service Contact:
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