The achievement gap in reading
Subtitle: complex causes, persistent issues, possible solutions
By: edited by Rosalind Horowitz, S. Jay Samuels
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781138018792; 9781138018785
Subjects: Academic achievement; Literacy; Social aspects; Reading; Supplementary reading; Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The achievement gap in reading : unique historical and future perspectives / Rosalind Horowitz and S. Jay Samuels; title: Poverty's powerful effects on reading achievement and the achievement gap / David C. Berliner; title: Creating responsive teachers of Hispanic and bilingual students learning English / Robert Jiménez, Sam David, Mark Pacheco, Victoria J. Risko, Lisa Pray, Keenan Fagan, and Mark Gonzales; title: Motivating and instructing African American students in classrooms / John T. Guthrie and Angela McRae; title: Closing the reading achievement gap for indigenous children / Jay S. Blanchard and Kim Atwill; title: Why the achievement gap? / Edmund W. Gordon and Paola C. Heincke; title: Including differences in variability in assessing the achievement gap in reading / Michael Harwell; title: International brain wars : adolescent reading proficiency, performance, and achievement from a competitive global perspective / Rosalind Horowitz; title: The talk gap / Terrance D. Paul and Jill Gilkerson; title: Summer reading loss is the basis of almost all the rich/poor reading gap / Richard L. Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen; title: The federal effort : how five different and sometimes contradictory efforts have been made to close the achievement gap / Richard Long and Alan Farstrup; title: Synthesis, discussion, and recommendations : what we can do to advance reading achievement / Rosalind Horowitz and S. Jay Samuels.