The opportunity gap
Subtitle: achievement and inequality in education
By: edited by Carol DeShano da Silva ... [et al.] ; afterword by Ronald F. Ferguson.
Contributors: Da Silva, Carol DeShano.
Series: Harvard educational review. Reprint series -- no. 43.; Harvard educational review -- no. 43.
Publisher: Harvard Educational Review
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780916690472
Subjects: Educational equalization -- United States.; Community and school -- United States.; Academic achievement -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Poverty and education / Raewyn Connell; value: "Improve the women": mass schooling, female literacy, and worldwide social change / Robert A. Levine, Sarah E. Levine, Beatrice Schnell-Anzola; value: Cognitive skill and economic inequality: findings from the National Adult Literacy Survey / Stephen W. Raudenbush, Rafa M. Kasim; value: The politics of culture: understanding local political resistance to detracking in racially mixed schools / Amy Stuart Wells, Irene Serna; value: Structuring failure and success: understanding the variability in Latino school engagement / Gilberto Q. Conchas; value: Student social class and teacher expectations: the self-fulfilling prophecy in ghetto education / [Ray C. Rist]; value: The Algebra Project: organizing in the spirit of Ella / Robert Parris Moses ... [et al.]; value: Citizenship for all in the literate community: an ethnography of young children with significant disabilities in inclusive early childhood settings / Christopher Kliewer ... [et al.]; value: Lessons from students on creating a chance to dream / Sonia Nieto; value: Afterword: Opportunity now: raising achievement in spite of structural impediments / Ronald F. Ferguson.