Closing the opportunity gap : what America must do to give all children an even chance / edited by Prudence L. Carter & Kevin G. Welner.
2013
LC213.2 .C565 2013eb
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Title
Closing the opportunity gap : what America must do to give all children an even chance / edited by Prudence L. Carter & Kevin G. Welner.
ISBN
9780199983001 (electronic bk.)
0199983003 (electronic bk.)
9780199346219 (ebook)
0199346216
9780199982981
0199982988
9780199982998
0199982996
0199983003 (electronic bk.)
9780199346219 (ebook)
0199346216
9780199982981
0199982988
9780199982998
0199982996
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
LC213.2 .C565 2013eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)839304997
Summary
'Closing the Opportunity Gap' brings together top experts who offer evidence-based essays that paint a powerful and shocking picture of denied opportunities. They also describe sensible, research-based policy approaches that will enhance opportunities. They highlight the discrepancies that exist in US society and in its public schools, focusing on how policy decisions and broader circumstances conspire to create the opportunity gap that leads inexorably to the outcome differences that have become so stark.
Note
'Closing the Opportunity Gap' brings together top experts who offer evidence-based essays that paint a powerful and shocking picture of denied opportunities. They also describe sensible, research-based policy approaches that will enhance opportunities. They highlight the discrepancies that exist in US society and in its public schools, focusing on how policy decisions and broader circumstances conspire to create the opportunity gap that leads inexorably to the outcome differences that have become so stark.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Achievement gaps arise from opportunity gaps / Kevin G. Welner & Prudence L. Carter
Lack of achievement or loss of opportunity? / Gloria Ladson-Billings
Educationalizing the welfare state and privatizing education: the irony of recent school reform / Harvey Kantor & Robert Lowe
Going to the roots: race, housing, and school inequality costs and possible solutions / Gary Orfield
Why children from lower socioeconomic classes, on average, have lower academic achievement than middle-class children / Richard Rothstein
Inequality and school resources: what it will take to close the opportunity gap? / Linda Darling-Hammond
Achievement gaps start early: preschool can help / W. Steven Barnett & Cynthia E. Lamy
How common standards and standardized testing widen the opportunity gap / Yong Zhao & Christopher Tienken
A more perfect union: reconciling school choice policy with equality of opportunity goals / Janelle Scott & Amy Stuart Wells
Student and school cultures & the opportunity gap: paying attention and engaging better / Prudence L. Carter
Meeting the needs of language minorities / Patricia Gándara
Tracking, segregation, and the opportunity gap: what we know and why it matters / Karolyn Tyson
Good schools and teachers for all students: dispelling myths, facing evidence, and pursuing the right strategies / Barnett Berry
The cumulative costs of the opportunity gap / Clive Belfield & Hank Levin
Enhancing a nation's democracy through equitable schools / Michele Moses & John Rogers
Building opportunities to achieve / Prudence L. Carter & Kevin G. Welner.
Lack of achievement or loss of opportunity? / Gloria Ladson-Billings
Educationalizing the welfare state and privatizing education: the irony of recent school reform / Harvey Kantor & Robert Lowe
Going to the roots: race, housing, and school inequality costs and possible solutions / Gary Orfield
Why children from lower socioeconomic classes, on average, have lower academic achievement than middle-class children / Richard Rothstein
Inequality and school resources: what it will take to close the opportunity gap? / Linda Darling-Hammond
Achievement gaps start early: preschool can help / W. Steven Barnett & Cynthia E. Lamy
How common standards and standardized testing widen the opportunity gap / Yong Zhao & Christopher Tienken
A more perfect union: reconciling school choice policy with equality of opportunity goals / Janelle Scott & Amy Stuart Wells
Student and school cultures & the opportunity gap: paying attention and engaging better / Prudence L. Carter
Meeting the needs of language minorities / Patricia Gándara
Tracking, segregation, and the opportunity gap: what we know and why it matters / Karolyn Tyson
Good schools and teachers for all students: dispelling myths, facing evidence, and pursuing the right strategies / Barnett Berry
The cumulative costs of the opportunity gap / Clive Belfield & Hank Levin
Enhancing a nation's democracy through equitable schools / Michele Moses & John Rogers
Building opportunities to achieve / Prudence L. Carter & Kevin G. Welner.
Source of Description
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Ladson-Billings, Gloria, 1947- Lack of achievement or loss of opportunity?
Available in Other Form
Print version: Closing the opportunity gap. New York : Oxford University Press, 2013
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