The achievement gap in U.S. education : canaries in the mine /
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Lanham, Md. :
ScarecrowEducation,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Education in the broad political context
- Myths about the achievement gap
- The case against the genetic model
- Income, wealth, and the achievement gap
- Other possible causes of the gap
- Success stories and what we can learn from them
- Why good teaching matters and what it takes to achieve it
- Why good teaching practices are relatively rare in U.S. schools and even rarer in poor and minority schools
- How and why did it get this way?.