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Closing the opportunity gap : what America must do to give all children an even chance /
'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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.