Restoring Opportunity (eBook)

The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge for American Education

Greg J. Duncan, Richard J. Murnane (Autoren)

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2014
200 Seiten
Harvard Education Press (Verlag)
978-1-61250-636-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Restoring Opportunity lays out the causes of opportunity gaps and inequity in schools. It provides educators and school leaders with actionable solutions to decrease achievement gaps between low- and high-income students.

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In this landmark volume, Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane lay out a meticulously researched case showing howin a time of spiraling inequalitystrategically targeted interventions and supports can help schools significantly improve the life chances of low-income children.The authors offer a brilliant synthesis of recent research on inequality and its effects on families, children, and schools. They describe the interplay of social and economic factors that has made it increasingly hard for schools to counteract the effects of inequality and that has created a widening wedge between low- and high-income students.Restoring Opportunity provides detailed portraits of proven initiatives that are transforming the lives of low-income children from prekindergarten through high school. All of these programs are research-tested and have demonstrated sustained effectiveness over time and at significant scale. Together, they offer a powerful vision of what good instruction in effective schools can look like. The authors conclude by outlining the elements of a new agenda for education reform.Restoring Opportunity is a crowning contribution from these two leading economists in the field of education and a passionate call to action on behalf of the young people on whom our nation's future depends.Copublished with the Russell Sage Foundation

Autor

Greg J. Duncan is a distinguished professor in the Department of Education at the University of California, Irvine. Richard J. Murnane is the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Inhalt

CONTENTS 1 A Fading Dream 1 2 DivergingDestinies 7 3 Family Income and School Success 23 4 Challenges in the Classroom 35 5 Promising Prekindergarten Programs 53 6 Elementary Schools That Work 71 7 High Schools That Improve Life Chances 85 8 Programs That Support Families 109 9 Restoring Opportunity 123Notes 145Acknowledgments 173About the Authors 177Index 179

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: academic standards • Achievement Gaps • Common Core-based assessments • educational equalization • education reform • high-poverty schools • low-income children • school improvement programs
• ISBN-10: 1-61250-636-4 / 1612506364
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61250-636-4 / 9781612506364