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Whither opportunity? : rising inequality, schools, and children's life chances /

In Whither Opportunity?, a team of economists, sociologists, and experts in social and education policy examines the corrosive effects of unequal family resources, disadvantaged neighborhoods, insecure labor markets, and worsening school conditions on K-12 education. This groundbreaking book illumin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Duncan, Greg J. (Editor ), Murnane, Richard J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, New York : Chicago : Russell Sage Foundation ; Spencer Foundation, [2011]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The American dream, then and now / Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane
  • Lessons from neuroscience research for understanding causal links between family and neighborhood characteristics and educational outcomes / Charles A. Nelson III and Margaret A. Sheridan
  • The nature and impact of early achievement skills, attention skills, and behavior problems / Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson
  • Middle and high school skills, behaviors, attitudes, and curriculum enrollment, and their consequences / George Farkas
  • The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: new evidence and possible explanations / Sean F. Reardon
  • Inequality in postsecondary education / Martha J. Bailey and Susan M. Dynarski
  • Educational expectations and attainment / Brian A. Jacob and Tamara Wilder Linkow
  • Educational mobility in the United States since the 1930s / Michael Hout and Alexander Janus
  • How is family income related to investments in children's learning? / Neeraj Kaushal, Katherine Magnuson, and Jane Waldfogel
  • Parenting, time use, and disparities in academic outcomes / Meredith Phillips
  • Family-structure instability and adolescent educational outcomes: a focus on families with stepfathers / Megan M. Sweeney
  • Converging evidence for neighborhood effects on children's test scores: an experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational comparison / Julia Burdick-Will [and 5 others]
  • Unpacking neighborhood influences on education outcomes: setting the stage for future research / David Harding [and 4 others]
  • The effects of local employment losses on children's educational achievement / Elizabeth O. Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, and Christina M. Gibson-Davis
  • How does parental unemployment affect children's educational performance? / Phillip B. Levine
  • The role of family, school, and community characteristics in inequality in education and labor-market outcomes / Joseph G. Altonji and Richard K. Mansfield
  • Year-by-year and cumulative impacts of attending a high-mobility elementary school on children's mathematics achievement in Chicago, 1995 to 2005 / Stephen W. Raudenbush, Marshall Jean, and Emily Art
  • The effect of school neighborhoods on teachers' career decisions / Don Boyd [and 4 others]
  • Crime and the production of safe schools / David S. Kirk and Robert J. Sampson
  • Immigrants and inequality in public schools / Amy Ellen Schwartz and Leanna Stiefel
  • School desegregation and the black-white test score gap / Jacob L. Vigdor
  • The challenges of finding causal links between family educational practices and schooling outcomes / Frank F. Furstenberg
  • It may not take a village: increasing achievement among the poor / Vilsa E. Curto, Roland G. Fryer Jr., and Meghan L. Howard
  • Understanding the context for existing reform and research proposals / Harry Brighouse and Gina Schouten
  • Intervening to improve the educational outcomes of students in poverty: lessons from recent work in high-poverty schools / Brian Rowan.