Exploring unequal achievement in the schools
Subtitle: the social construction of failure
By: George Ansalone.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780739124680
Subjects: Children with social disabilities -- Education -- United States; School failure -- Social aspects -- United States; Discrimination in education -- United States
Description: For over a half century, educational sociologists have struggled to explain the cause of differential academic achievement in the school. This book attempts to offer an explanation by examining the role played by ascribed characteristics of students (race, gender, and class) and educational practices and structures of schools (testing, tracking, and teacher expectations) as they combine to create a self-fulfilling prophesy of behavior and belief. From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.