The opportunity gap : achievement and inequality in education /
"The achievement gap looms large in the current era of high-stakes testing and accountability. Yet questions persist: Has the accountability movement - and attendant discussions on the achievement gap - focused attention on the true sources of educational failure in American schools? Do we need...
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard Educational Review,
c2007.
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| Series: | Harvard educational review. Reprint series ;
no. 43. |
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| 245 | 0 | 4 | |a The opportunity gap : |b achievement and inequality in education / |c edited by Carol DeShano da Silva ... [et al.] ; afterword by Ronald F. Ferguson. |
| 260 | |a Cambridge, MA : |b Harvard Educational Review, |c c2007. | ||
| 300 | |a 331 p. ; |c 26 cm. | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Harvard educational review. Reprint series ; |v no. 43 | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Poverty and education / Raewyn Connell -- "Improve the women": mass schooling, female literacy, and worldwide social change / Robert A. Levine, Sarah E. Levine, Beatrice Schnell-Anzola -- Cognitive skill and economic inequality: findings from the National Adult Literacy Survey / Stephen W. Raudenbush, Rafa M. Kasim -- The politics of culture: understanding local political resistance to detracking in racially mixed schools / Amy Stuart Wells, Irene Serna -- Structuring failure and success: understanding the variability in Latino school engagement / Gilberto Q. Conchas -- Student social class and teacher expectations: the self-fulfilling prophecy in ghetto education / [Ray C. Rist] -- The Algebra Project: organizing in the spirit of Ella / Robert Parris Moses ... [et al.] -- Citizenship for all in the literate community: an ethnography of young children with significant disabilities in inclusive early childhood settings / Christopher Kliewer ... [et al.] -- Lessons from students on creating a chance to dream / Sonia Nieto -- Afterword: Opportunity now: raising achievement in spite of structural impediments / Ronald F. Ferguson. | |
| 520 | |a "The achievement gap looms large in the current era of high-stakes testing and accountability. Yet questions persist: Has the accountability movement - and attendant discussions on the achievement gap - focused attention on the true sources of educational failure in American schools? Do we need to look beyond classrooms and schools for credible accounts of disparities in educational outcomes?" "This book aims to shift attention from the current overwhelming emphasis on schools in discussions of the achievement gap to more fundamental questions about social and educational opportunity. Together its essays reintroduce the overlooked central issue in educational inequity: the lack of opportunity that many social groups face in our common quest for educational attainment. In a series of wide-ranging and carefully nuanced essays, The Opportunity Gap casts much-needed light on the vexed relationship between society and education - and on the crucial, persistent role that education plays in addressing social ills." --Book Jacket. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Educational equalization |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Community and school |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Academic achievement |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Equality |z United States. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Da Silva, Carol DeShano. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Harvard educational review. |p Reprint series ; |v no. 43. | |
| 988 | |a 20070220 | ||
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