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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
Spencer Foundation,
[2011]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.