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# Our Children Can’t Wait

The Urgency of Reinventing Education Policy in America

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- [About](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/) - In Our Children Can’t Wait, a new book from Teachers College Press, Dr. Joseph Bishop of UCLA and a national network of scholars challenge inequality.
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- [Podcast Episodes](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/podcast/) - Our Children Can’t Wait is a podcast companion to the book of the same name. It’s about the systems and structures that keep our kids from flourishing. Hosted by author and Executive Director for the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools, Dr. Joseph Bishop invites you to unpack a host of issues that all
- [Chapters](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/book/)

## Chapters

- [Chapter 15 – Students Experiencing Homelessness: A National Crisis](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/book/chapter-15-students-experiencing-homelessness-a-national-crisis/) - Chapter fifteen covers the importance of eradicating student homelessness, and its connectedness to educational outcomes and equities.
- [Chapter 16 – Bringing the Vision Together: How to Reach the Policies We Need](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/book/chapter-16-how-to-reach-the-policies-we-need/) - Chapter sixteen concludes the book by outlining how new policy cycles and processes can help us achieve racial justice for historically overlooked marginalized communities.
- [Chapter 6 – Starting in School: Education Policies to Dismantle Systemic Racism](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/book/chapter-6-dismantling-systemic-racism-in-school/) - Chapter six explains that school transformation is a difficult process without the inclusion of education policy centered on race-conscious knowledge and addressing the conditions of systemic racism in and outside of schools.
- [Chapter 12 – Moving Beyond Injustice and Distributive Justice: Toward Transformative Justice in School Finance](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/book/chapter-12-transformative-justice-in-school-finance/) - Chapter twelve critiques school finance policies and outlines the changes that must be made to the way schools are financed in order to see transformational change within the educational system.
- [Chapter 13 – Youth Wildin’ in the (re)Shaping of Policy: Toward a Critical Model of Racial Justice and Community Accountability](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/book/chapter-13-youth-organizing-policy/) - Chapter 13 provides insight into how amplifying the voices and experiences of youth, especially youth of color, can be utilized to create change in policy work for racial justice.
- [Chapter 14 – Youth Incarceration & Education Policy](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/book/chapter-14-youth-incarceration-policy/) - Chapter fourteen describes how policymakers and educators can begin to move away from punitive, carceral approaches and instead work with justice-involved youth to remediate their past educational deficits and ensure that the educational system does not further harm these students.
- [Chapter 1 – Our Children Can’t Wait: The Urgency of Reinventing Education Policy in America](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/book/chapter-1-our-children-cant-wait/) - Chapter one serves as an introduction to the book, describing the importance of considering in-school (e.g., educator training, curriculum, assessments) and out-of-school factors (e.g., neighborhood conditions, environmental factors, health, and housing) simultaneously when creating education policy.
- [Chapter 7 – Youths’ Health and Learning Connection](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/book/chapter-7-youths-health-and-learning/) - Chapter seven highlights the critical connection between student health and academics, and how health disparities contribute to widening opportunity gaps within the education system.
- [Chapter 2 – Grappling With America’s History to Inform Our Future Policies](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/book/chapter-2-grappling-with-americas-history/) - Chapter two describes the social, economic, and political landscapes of the United States and the foundational policies that have determined the rights of communities of color.
- [Chapter 8 – Air Pollution, Exposure to Contaminants, and Education Policy](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/book/chapter-8-air-pollution-education-policy/) - Chapter eight focuses on the environmental characteristics that can define neighborhoods and their connection to academic outcomes for students.
- [Chapter 3 – Making Children a National Priority: Overcoming the Marginalization and Invisibility of Children](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/book/chapter-3-making-children-a-national-priority/) - Chapter three emphasizes the lack of children's voice and agency within politics and policy, arguing children must become more visible within our society and to policymakers.
- [Chapter 9 – Promoting Equity and Justice Through Integrated Schools and Communities](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/book/chapter-9-integrated-schools-communities/) - Chapter nine details the impact that integrated schools and communities have on creating more equitable opportunities for children from all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.
- [Chapter 4 – Whose Vision of Racial Equity? Reinventing Education Policy in Post-Civil Rights America](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/book/chapter-4-whose-vision-of-racial-equity/) - Chapter four explores educational policies concentrated on racial equity, the role education plays in a post-civil rights American society, and how centering new policies in racial justice can bring about meaningful change for historically marginalized communities.
- [Chapter 10 – Housing Strategies as Education Policy](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/book/chapter-10-housing-strategies-as-education-policy/) - Chapter ten proposes changes to educational policy to make secure housing an essential right for students, and to improve the quality and stability of students’ housing to allow for all children to thrive without having to worry about their basic needs being met.
- [Chapter 5 – Developing Policy for the Whole Child](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/book/chapter-5-policy-for-the-whole-child/) - Chapter five discusses taking a “whole child approach” to education policy and how such an approach values students’ strengths, needs, and interests.
- [Chapter 11 – Reimagining School Safety during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call for Policy Strategies to Address Racial and Social Justice](https://ourchildrencantwait.com/book/chapter-11-school-community-safety/) - Chapter eleven focuses on the need to rethink punitive approaches to school safety in order to address racial and social justice.