Students of color and the achievement gap : systematic challenges, systematic transformations / Richard R. Valencia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valencia, Richard R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Education--United States.

Minorities.

Minorities--Education.

United States.

Academic achievement--United States.

Academic achievement.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 345 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

Students of Color and the Achievement Gap is a comprehensive, landmark analysis of an incontrovertible racialized reality in U.S. K-12 public education - the relentless achievement gap between low-socioeconomic students of color and their economically advantaged White counterparts. Award-winning author and scholar Richard R. Valencia provides an authoritative and systemic treatment of the achievement gap, focusing on Black and Latino/ Latina students. He examines the societal and educational factors that help to create and maintain the achievement gap by drawing from critical race theory, an asset-based perspective, and a systemic inequality approach. By showing how racialized opportunity structures in society and schools ultimately result in racialized patterns of academic achievement in schools, Valencia shows how the various indicators of the achievement gap are actually symptoms of the societal and school quality gaps. Following each of these concerns, Valencia provides a number of reform suggestions that can lead to systemic transformations of K-12 education. Students of Color and the Achievement Gap makes a persuasive and well-documented case that school success for students of color., and the empowerment of their parents, can be fully understood and realized only when contextualized within broader political, economic, and cultural frameworks. Book jacket.

Contents:

The achievement gap

Competing models to explain the achievement gap

The "other" gaps: income, housing, and health

School segregation, desegregation, and integration

Teacher quality

Language suppression and cultural exclusion

Curriculum differentiation

Parental engagement and empowerment

Student agency and empowerment.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138018808

1138018805

9781138018815

1138018813

OCLC:

900867720