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- ISBN
- 0199982996
- Book Title
- Closing the Opportunity Gap : What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance
- Item Length
- 5.7 in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Education, Social Science
- Topic
- Educational Policy & Reform / Federal Legislation, Sociology / General
- Item Width
- 9.6 in
- Item Weight
- 18.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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While the achievement gap has dominated policy discussions over the past two decades, relatively little attention has been paid to a gap even more at odds with American ideals: the opportunity gap. Opportunity and achievement, while inextricably connected, are very different goals. Every American will not go to college, but every American should be given a fair chance to be prepared for college. In communities across the U.S., children lack the crucial resources and opportunities, inside and outside of schools that they need if they are to reach their potential. Closing the Opportunity Gap offers accessible, research-based essays written by top experts who highlight the discrepancies that exist in our public schools, focusing on how policy decisions and life circumstances conspire to create the "opportunity gap" that leads inexorably to stark achievement gaps. They also describe sensible policies grounded in evidence that can restore and enhance opportunities. Moving beyond conventional academic discourse, Closing the Opportunity Gap will spark vital new conversations about what schools, parents, educators, and policymakers can and should do to give all children a fair chance to thrive.
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199982996
ISBN-13
9780199982998
eBay Product ID (ePID)
164726557
Product Key Features
Book Title
Closing the Opportunity Gap : What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Educational Policy & Reform / Federal Legislation, Sociology / General
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Education, Social Science
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
5.7 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
9.6 in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Lc213.2.C565 2013
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"Schooling, at its best, is about creating new futures for our children. Closing the Opportunity Gap describes education as it is and provides a vision of education as it should be. The book provides a powerful critique of the educational and social policies and practices that exacerbate the widening economic disparity between rich and poor and the growing opportunity gap for too many of our nation's youth. The authors' analyses of educational inequityand their focus on opportunity to learn offer a much needed blueprint and a new social imagination about schooling in the U.S." -Kris D. Gutiérrez, Inaugural Provost's Chair and Professor of Learning Sciences,University of Colorado Boulder."As policymakers and education leaders seek to pick up the pieces of a public education system tattered by No-Child-Left-Behind style reform, Carter and Welner's book brings clear-eyed analyses of failure and of future possibilities. In one highly readable volume, the nation's leading scholars provide evidence-based accounts of the root causes, everyday realities, and long-term consequences of the nation's weightiest educational problem-profound inequality inand out of school. And, most important, they offer comprehensive, insightful, and useful remedies. Those seeking new concepts and strategies for creating the public schools our diverse nationdesperately needs and deserves need look no further than this astonishing book."-Jeannie Oakes, Director of Education and Scholarship, Ford Foundation, "Schooling, at its best, is about creating new futures for our children. Closing the Opportunity Gap describes education as it is and provides a vision of education as it should be. The book provides a powerful critique of the educational and social policies and practices that exacerbate the widening economic disparity between rich and poor and the growing opportunity gap for too many of our nation's youth. The authors' analyses of educational inequity and their focus on opportunity to learn offer a much needed blueprint and a new social imagination about schooling in the U.S." -Kris D. Gutiérrez, Inaugural Provost's Chair and Professor of Learning Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder. "As policymakers and education leaders seek to pick up the pieces of a public education system tattered by No-Child-Left-Behind style reform, Carter and Welner's book brings clear-eyed analyses of failure and of future possibilities. In one highly readable volume, the nation's leading scholars provide evidence-based accounts of the root causes, everyday realities, and long-term consequences of the nation's weightiest educational problem-profound inequality in and out of school. And, most important, they offer comprehensive, insightful, and useful remedies. Those seeking new concepts and strategies for creating the public schools our diverse nation desperately needs and deserves need look no further than this astonishing book."-Jeannie Oakes, Director of Education and Scholarship, Ford Foundation, "Schooling, at its best, is about creating new futures for our children. Closing the Opportunity Gap describes education as it is and provides a vision of education as it should be. The book provides a powerful critique of the educational and social policies and practices that exacerbate the widening economic disparity between rich and poor and the growing opportunity gap for too many of our nation's youth. The authors' analyses of educational inequity and their focus on opportunity to learn offer a much needed blueprint and a new social imagination about schooling in the U.S." -Kris D. Gutirrez, Inaugural Provost's Chair and Professor of Learning Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder. "As policymakers and education leaders seek to pick up the pieces of a public education system tattered by No-Child-Left-Behind style reform, Carter and Welner's book brings clear-eyed analyses of failure and of future possibilities. In one highly readable volume, the nation's leading scholars provide evidence-based accounts of the root causes, everyday realities, and long-term consequences of the nation's weightiest educational problem-profound inequality in and out of school. And, most important, they offer comprehensive, insightful, and useful remedies. Those seeking new concepts and strategies for creating the public schools our diverse nation desperately needs and deserves need look no further than this astonishing book."-Jeannie Oakes, Director of Education and Scholarship, Ford Foundation
Table of Content
AcknowledgementsList of Contributors1. Achievement Gaps Arise from Opportunity Gaps2. Lack of Achievement or Loss of Opportunity?Part One: Overcoming the Obstacles We Create for Children3. Educationalizing the Welfare State and Privatizing Education: The Irony of Recent School Reform4. Going to the Roots: Race, Housing, and School Inequality Costs and Possible Solutions5. Why Children from Lower Socioeconomic Classes, on Average, Have Lower Academic Achievement than Middle-Class ChildrenPart Two: Overcoming the Obstacles We Create for Schools6. Inequality and School Resources: What it Will Take to Close the Opportunity Gap?7. Achievement Gaps Start Early: Preschool Can Help8. How Common Standards and Standardized Testing Widen the Opportunity Gap9. A More Perfect Union: Reconciling School Choice Policy with Equality of Opportunity GoalsPart Three: Overcoming the Obstacles We Create for Teachers10. Student and School Cultures and the Opportunity Gap: Paying Attention and Engaging Better11. Meeting the Needs of Language Minorities12. Tracking, Segregation, and the Opportunity Gap: What We Know and Why It Matters13. Good Schools and Teachers for All Students: Dispelling Myths, Facing Evidence, and Pursuing the Right StrategiesPart Four: Solutions/Conclusion14. The Cumulative Costs of the Opportunity Gap15. Enhancing a Nation's Democracy through Equitable Schools16. Building Opportunities to AchieveNotes ReferencesIndex
Copyright Date
2013
Lccn
2012-046978
Dewey Decimal
379.260973
Dewey Edition
23
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