The achievement gap in U.S. education
Subtitle: canaries in the mine
By: Mano Singham.
Publisher: ScarecrowEducation
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Educational equalization -- United States; Academic achievement -- United States
Other titles: Achievement gap in United States education.; Achievement gap in US education.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Education in the broad political context; title: Myths about the achievement gap; title: The case against the genetic model; title: Income, wealth, and the achievement gap; title: Other possible causes of the gap; title: Success stories and what we can learn from them; title: Why good teaching matters and what it takes to achieve it; title: Why good teaching practices are relatively rare in U.S. schools and even rarer in poor and minority schools; title: How and why did it get this way?.