Closing the opportunity gap : what America must do to give all children an even chance / edited by Prudence L. Carter & Kevin G. Welner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carter, Prudence L.

Welner, Kevin Grant, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

Education--United States.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Closing the Opportunity Gap offers accessible, research-based essays written by leading experts who highlight the disparities that exist in our public schools for the opportunity to learn instead of test scores and outcomes. They focus on how policy decisions and broader circumstances conspire to cumulatively create the "opportunity gap" that leads inexorably to the academic achievement gaps that have become so stark.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""1. Achievement Gaps Arise from Opportunity Gaps""; ""2. Lack of Achievement or Loss of Opportunity?""; ""PART I: OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLES WE CREATE FOR CHILDREN""; ""3. Educationalizing the Welfare State and Privatizing Education: The Evolution of Social Policy since the New Deal""; ""4. Housing Segregation Produces Unequal Schools: Causes and Solutions""; ""5. Why Children from Lower Socioeconomic Classes, on Average, Have Lower Academic Achievement Than Middle-Class Children""

""PART II: OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLES WE CREATE FOR SCHOOLS""""6. Inequality and School Resources: What It Will Take to Close the Opportunity Gap""; ""7. Achievement Gaps Start Early: Preschool Can Help""; ""8. How Common Standards and Standardized Testing Widen the Opportunity Gap""; ""9. A More Perfect Union: Reconciling School Choice Policy with Equality of Opportunity Goals""; ""PART III: OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLES WE CREATE FOR EQUALITY""; ""10. Student and School Cultures and the Opportunity Gap: Paying Attention to Academic Engagement and Achievement""

""11. Meeting the Needs of Language Minorities""""12. Tracking, Segregation, and the Opportunity Gap: What We Know and Why It Matters""; ""13. Good Schools and Teachers for All Students: Dispelling Myths, Facing Evidence, and Pursuing the Right Strategies""; ""PART IV: SOLUTIONS/CONCLUSION""; ""14. The Cumulative Costs of the Opportunity Gap""; ""15. Enhancing a Nation�s Democracy through Equitable Schools""; ""16. Building Opportunities to Achieve""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""

""P""""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Ladson-Billings, Gloria, 1947- Lack of achievement or loss of opportunity?

ISBN:

0-19-998301-1

1-299-45786-X

0-19-998300-3

OCLC:

845337298