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ISBN 10: 0199983011
ISBN 13: 9780199983018
Author: Prudence Carter, Kevin Welner
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.
Closing the Opportunity Gap 1st Table of contents:
1. Achievement Gaps Arise from Opportunity Gaps
Kevin G. Welner and Prudence L. Carter
2. Lack of Achievement or Loss of Opportunity?
Gloria Ladson-Billings
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
Harvey Kantor and Robert Lowe
4. Housing Segregation Produces Unequal Schools: Causes and Solutions
Gary Orfield
5. Why Children from Lower Socioeconomic Classes, on Average, Have Lower Academic Achievement Than Middle-Class Children
Richard Rothstein
Part II | Overcoming The Obstacles We Create For Schools
6. Inequality and School Resources: What It Will Take to Close the Opportunity Gap
Linda Darling-Hammond
7. Achievement Gaps Start Early: Preschool Can Help
W. Steven Barnett and Cynthia E. Lamy
8. How Common Standards and Standardized Testing Widen the Opportunity Gap
Christopher H. Tienken and Yong Zhao
9. A More Perfect Union: Reconciling School Choice Policy with Equality of Opportunity Goals
Janelle Scott and Amy Stuart Wells
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
Prudence L. Carter
11. Meeting the Needs of Language Minorities
Patricia Gándara
12. Tracking, Segregation, and the Opportunity Gap: What We Know and Why It Matters
Karolyn Tyson
13. Good Schools and Teachers for All Students: Dispelling Myths, Facing Evidence, and Pursuing the Right Strategies
Barnett Berry
Part IV | Solutions/Conclusion
14. The Cumulative Costs of the Opportunity Gap
Clive Belfield and Henry M. Levin
15. Enhancing a Nation’s Democracy through Equitable Schools
Michele S. Moses and John Rogers
16. Building Opportunities to Achieve
Prudence L. Carter and Kevin G. Welner
Notes
References
Index
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