Closing the Opportunity Gap What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance

Name: Closing the Opportunity Gap What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance
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ISBN: 9780199982998

ISBN-10: 0199982996

ISBN-13: 9780199982998

Edition: 2013

Authors: Prudence L. Carter, Kevin G. Welner

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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 that is 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 fair opportunities to be prepared for college. By obsessively focusing on measuring achievement, the nation's policymakers have made little progress in measuring or addressing inequitable opportunities. Policy therefore failsto engage with the challenges, supports, and resources that lead to improvements in student learning. The…

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List price: $36.50
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 5/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 9.62" wide x 5.70" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.364



Acknowledgments


Contributors



Achievement Gaps Arise from Opportunity Gaps




Lack of Achievement or Loss of Opportunity?




Overcoming the Obstacles We Create for Children



Educationalizing the Welfare State and Privatizing Education: The Evolution of Social Policy since the New Deal




Housing Segregation Produces Unequal Schools: Causes and Solutions




Why Children from Lower Socioeconomic Classes, on Average, Have Lower Academic Achievement Than Middle-Class Children




Overcoming the Obstacles We Create for Schools



Inequality and School Resources: What It Will Take to Close the Opportunity Gap




Achievement Gaps Start Early: Preschool Can Help




How Common Standards and Standardized Testing Widen the Opportunity Gap




A More Perfect Union: Reconciling School Choice Policy with Equality of Opportunity Goals




Overcoming the Obstacles We Create for Equality



Student and School Cultures and the Opportunity Gap: Paying Attention to Academic Engagement and Achievement




Meeting the Needs of Language Minorities




Tracking, Segregation, and the Opportunity Gap: What We Know and Why It Matters




Good Schools and Teachers for All Students: Dispelling Myths, Facing Evidence, and Pursuing the Right Strategies




Solutions/Conclusion



The Cumulative Costs of the Opportunity Gap




Enhancing a Nation's Democracy through Equitable Schools




Building Opportunities to Achieve



Notes


References


Index