A notion at risk
Subtitle: preserving public education as an engine for social mobility
By: Richard D. Kahlenberg, editor
Contributors: Kahlenberg, Richard D
Publisher: Century Foundation Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Educational equalization -- United States; Education -- Social aspects -- United States; Public schools -- United States; Educational change -- United States
Other titles: Preserving public education as an engine for social mobility
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Making K-12 public education an engine for social mobility / Richard D. Kahlenberg; title: Summer learning and home environment / Doris Entwisle, Karl Alexander, and Linda Olson; title: Equalizing education resources on behalf of disadvantaged children / Richard Rothstein; title: High standards : a strategy for equalizing opportunities to learn? / Adam Gamoran; title: Inequality in teaching and schooling : supporting high-quality teaching and leadership in low income schools / Linda Darling-Hammond and Laura Post; title: Charter schools and racial and social class segregation : yet another sorting machine? / Amy Stuart Wells ... [et al.]; title: Student discipline and academic achievement / Paul Barton; title: Critical support : the public view of public education / Ruy Teixeira