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Author(s): Prudence L. Carter, Kevin G. Welner
ISBN(s): 9780199982981, 0199982988
Edition: 1
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Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199982988
ISBN 13:  9780199982981
Author: Prudence L Carter, Kevin G 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 What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Achievement Gaps Arise from Opportunity Gaps

Kevin G. Welner & Prudence L. Carter

Chapter 2: Lack of Achievement or Loss of Opportunity?

Gloria Ladson-Billings

Part One: Overcoming the Obstacles We Create for Children

Chapter 3: Educationalizing the Welfare State and Privatizing Education: The Irony of Recent School Reform

Harvey Kantor & Robert Lowe

Chapter 4: Going to the Roots: Race, Housing, and School Inequality Costs and Possible Solutions

Gary Orfield

Chapter 5: Why Children from Lower Socioeconomic Classes, on Average, Have Lower Academic Achievement than Middle-Class Children

Richard Rothstein

Part Two: Overcoming the Obstacles We Create for Schools

Chapter 6: Inequality and School Resources: What it Will Take to Close the Opportunity Gap?

Linda Darling-Hammond

Chapter 7: Achievement Gaps Start Early: Preschool Can Help

W. Steven Barnett & Cynthia E. Lamy

Chapter 8: How Common Standards and Standardized Testing Widen the Opportunity Gap

Yong Zhao & Christopher Tienken

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