Eliminating the Achievement Gap

William Jeynes (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

204 Seiten

2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498557634 (ISBN)

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Eliminating the Achievement Gap is designed to be the first book to base society's efforts to reduce the achievement gap on meta-analytic analysis. It proposes an interdisciplinary approach to this problem that is rare, refreshing, and insightful, including solutions generally overlooked.

The purpose of the Eliminating the Achievement Gapis to provide a resource for scholars and students into many of the most salient issues, trends, and factors that are most effective in reducing the achievement gap. Eliminating the Achievement Gap is particularly unique because it will: 1) utilize a meta-analysis to determine what factors contribute the most to reducing the achievement gap and 2) examine potential achievement gap reducing variables from across disciplines. These disciplines include education, sociology, economics, family science, psychology, public policy, and educational psychology. The second emphasis is largely based on the meta-analysis, because the results of the meta-analysis indicate that the best way to completely eliminate the achievement gap is to initiate a multidisciplinary approach to the achievement gap. It is the intention of this book to make scholars, educators, policymakers, parents, and the general public more aware of the factors that best bridge the achievement gap, so that they can take major steps to implementing comprehensive and multidisciplinary efforts. The more such efforts are inaugurated, the more the achievement gap will be reduced. The nine chapters of this book are therefore divided into four parts to reflect this extent of this comprehensive approach.

William Jeynes is professor at California State University in Long Beach and a senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: The Research- and Historically- Based Foundations for Addressing the Achievement Gap

Chapter 1: History of Attempts to Reduce the Achievement Gap

Chapter 2: A Meta-Analysis on the Factors that Best Reduce the Achievement Gap

Chapter 3: The Significance of the Results of the Meta-Analysis in Historical Context

Part II: Factors Reducing that Gap that Require Broad Changes in Public Policy

Chapter 4: The Need for an Inner City Renaissance: The Interaction of Health, Education, and Welfare

Part III: Factors Reducing that Gap that Require a Cultural and School-Based Effort

Chapter 5: The Role of the Family and Parental Involvement in Reducing the Achievement Gap

Chapter 6: Broadening the Concept of Gaps, Why They Exist, and What Can Be Done to Alleviate Them

Chapter 7: Cultural and School Resources that Can Reduce the Achievement Gap

Chapter 8: How Various School Initiatives of the Past Half-Century Have Either Exacerbated or Reduced the Achievement Gap

Chapter 9: Future Hope and the Achievement Gap

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	17 tables;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 231 mm
Gewicht	490 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
ISBN-13	9781498557634 / 9781498557634
Zustand	Neuware