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In pursuit of equity in education : using international indicators to compare equity policies / Walo Hutmacher, Douglas Cochrane, and Norberto Bottani, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational equalization--Cross-cultural studies.
- Educational equalization.
- Educational indicators.
- Educational indicators--Cross-cultural studies.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2001]
- Contents:
- Part I Theoretical Approaches and Conceptual Issues
- Chapter 1. Equity and Education: A critical review of sociological research and thought / Luciano Benadusi 25
- Chapter 2. Efficiency and Equity / Marc Demeuse, Marcel Crahay, Christian Monseur 65
- Chapter 3. School Equity as a Matter of Justice / Denis Meuret 93
- Chapter 4. Why Education Matters: Race, ethnicity, poverty and American school-equity research / Douglas Cochrane 113
- Part II Equity Indicators: A Framework, A Rationale and Current Perspectives
- Chapter 5. A System of Equity Indicators for Educational Systems / Denis Meuret 133
- Chapter 6. Why Data Collection Matters: The role of race and poverty indicators in American education / Gary Orfield 165
- Chapter 7. International Equity Indicators in Education and Learning in Industrialized Democracies: Some recent results and avenues for the future / Thomas Healy, David Istance 195
- Chapter 8. Monitoring Educational Disparities in Less Developed Countries / Vittoria Cavicchioni, Albert Motivans 217
- Part III International Comparisons on Equity Issues
- Chapter 9. Is There an Effectiveness-Equity Trade-off? A cross-country comparison using TIMSS test scores / Vincent Vandenberghe, Vincent Dupriez, Marie-Denise Zachary 243
- Chapter 10. Equity Indicators Based on the Provision of Supplemental Resources for Disabled and Disadvantaged Students / Peter Evans 253
- Chapter 11. Educational Equity: Social interactions might matter / Vincent Vandenberghe 267
- Chapter 12. Intergenerational Inequities: A comparative analysis of the influence of parents' educational background on length of schooling and literacy skills / Sylvain Noel, Patrice de Broucker 277
- Part IV National Policies and the Use of Indicators
- Chapter 13. Equity and Equivalence in the Swedish School System / Anna Wildt-Persson, Per Gunnar Rosengren 299
- Chapter 14. Narrowing the Gap: Educational equity policy in Flanders / Kurt Dewitt, Peter Van Petegem 323
- Chapter 15. Economics and Demographics in Metropolitan Communities: An argument for international equity indicators / Douglas Cochrane 343.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0792369882
- OCLC:
- 46835373
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