Narrowing the achievement gap
Subtitle: perspectives and strategies for challenging times
By: edited by Thomas B. Timar, Julie Maxwell-Jolly
Publisher: Harvard Education Press; Harvard Education  Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781612501239; 9781612501246
Subjects: Academic achievement; Education; Children of minorities; Aims and objectives; Evaluation
Other titles: Perspectives and strategies for challenging times
Description: Closing persistent gaps in educational outcomes between different groups of students has been a central goal of educational policy for the past forty years. The commitment to close existing achievement gaps poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers, school leaders, and teachers alike, since the causes of those gaps are multiple and complex. For that reason, no single set of policy prescriptions--no matter how well crafted and managed--is likely to be successful. While there is no ready road map for policy makers, the press for solutions is acute. This timely and thoughtful book provides multiple perspectives on closing achievement gaps. The chapters examine the conditions--both in and out of school--that lead to achievement gaps. However, this book also explores measures for addressing these gaps -- measures that, individually and in concert, will prove crucial to any meaningful effort to alleviate these profound disparities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing achievement gaps on state tests  -- Nancy Kober, Victor Chudowsky, and Naomi Chudowsky; title: Reframing the ecology of opportunity and achievement gaps : why "no excuses" reforms have failed to narrow student group differences in educational outcomes  -- Robert K. Ream, Sarah M. Ryan, and Jose A. Espinoza; title: Narrowing the multiple achievement gaps in the United States : eight goals for the long haul  -- W. Norton Grubb; title: The achievement gap in California and beyond : context, status, and approaches for improvement  -- Eva L. Baker, Noelle C. Griffin, and Kilchan Choi; title: Accessing high-quality instructional strategies  -- Edmund T. Hamann and Jenelle Reeves; title: Organizational strategies for addressing the educational achievement gap  -- Douglas E. Mitchell [and others]; title: Improving high schools as a strategy for closing the achievement gap  -- Russell W. Rumberger; title: Teaching all our children well : teachers and teaching to close the achievement gap  -- Julie Maxwell-Jolly and Patricia Gándara; title: Narrowing achievement gaps in tough times : rethinking the roles of money and school resources  -- W. Norton Grubb; title: Partnering with families and communities to address academic disparities  -- Nancy Erbstein and Elizabeth Miller; title: Reframing policy and practice to close the achievement gap -- Thomas B. Timar.