Learning time : in pursuit of educational equity / edited by Marisa Saunders, Jorge Ruiz de Velasco, Jeannie Oakes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saunders, Marisa, editor.

Ruiz-de-Velasco, Jorge, editor.

Oakes, Jeannie, editor.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schedules, School--United States.

Schedules, School.

Students with social disabilities.

School year.

School day.

United States.

School day--United States.

School year--United States.

Academic achievement--United States.

Academic achievement.

Students with social disabilities--United States.

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

Educational change--United States.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

viii, 288 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2017]

Summary:

In this book, the authors focus on how learning time--including the nature, quality, and quantity of that time--differs dramatically for affluent children and poor children and also explore a range of ways to improve the quality and quantity of learning time for children in poverty-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Jorge Ruiz de Velasco, Jeannie Oakes, and Marisa Saunders

Section 1. Broadening our vision of learning time

Chapter 1. Sparking an education movement: expanding learning time to raise achievement, empower teachers, and enrich education / Jennifer Davis and David Farbman

Chapter 2. Beyond the school day: the necessary role of expanded learning opportunities in closing the achievement gap / Jessica Gunderson, Jennifer Peck, and Katie Brackenridge

Chapter 3. More and better learning in community schools: lessons from Oakland / Kendra Fehrer and Jacob Leos-Urbel

Chapter 4. Promise neighborhoods: expanding opportunities to learn and succeed from cradle through career / Michael McAfee and Jessica Pizarek

Chapter 5. Linked learning: making the best of time for all students / Gary Hoachlander, Tameka McGlawn, and Brad Stam

Section II. Linking opportunities and outcomes-why and how expanded learning time 'works"

Chapter 6. Innovative uses of learning time: perspectives from the learning sciences / Ben Krishner and Rebecca G. Kaplan

Chapter 7. Deep and meaningful learning: where do we find the time? / Elizabeth Birr Moje

Chapter 8. English learners, immigrant students, and the challenge of time / Patricia Gándara

Chapter 9. Time for social change: the youth development and educational outcomes of youth organizaing / Veronica Terriquez and John Rogers

Chapter 10. Spatial inequality and gaps in expanded learning time opportunities / Paul Ong and Elena Ong

Section III. Beyond the technical challenges

Chapter 11. More and better learning time: strategies for improving teaching / Fred Frelow and Barnett Berry

Chapter 12. Expanding learning time within the zone of mediation / Michelle René Valladares and Kevin Welner

Chapter 13. Time in the struggle for education justice / Jeannie Oakes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781682531068

1682531066

9781682531075

1682531074

OCLC:

991372467

Publisher Number:

99974362645