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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Table of Contents:
- 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.