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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Closing the Opportunity Gap
- 1 Achievement Gaps Arise from Opportunity Gaps
- 2 Lack of Achievement or Loss of Opportunity?
- 3 Educationalizing the Welfare State and Privatizing Education
- 4 Housing Segregation Produces Unequal Schools
- 5 Why Children from Lower Socioeconomic Classes, on Average, Have Lower Academic Achievement Than Middle-Class Children
- 6 Inequality and School ResourcesWhat It Will Take to Close the Opportunity Gap
- 7 Achievement Gaps Start Early
- 8 How Common Standards and Standardized Testing Widen the Opportunity Gap
- 9 A More Perfect UnionReconciling School Choice Policy with Equality of Opportunity Goals
- 10 Student and School Cultures and the Opportunity Gap
- 11 Meeting the Needs of Language Minorities
- 12 Tracking, Segregation, and the Opportunity Gap
- 13 Good Schools and Teachers for All Students
- 14 The Cumulative Costs of the Opportunity Gap
- 15 Enhancing a Nation’s Democracy through Equitable Schools
- 16 Building Opportunities to Achieve
- References
- Index
Title Pages
Title Pages
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- Closing the Opportunity Gap
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Closing the Opportunity Gap
- 1 Achievement Gaps Arise from Opportunity Gaps
- 2 Lack of Achievement or Loss of Opportunity?
- 3 Educationalizing the Welfare State and Privatizing Education
- 4 Housing Segregation Produces Unequal Schools
- 5 Why Children from Lower Socioeconomic Classes, on Average, Have Lower Academic Achievement Than Middle-Class Children
- 6 Inequality and School ResourcesWhat It Will Take to Close the Opportunity Gap
- 7 Achievement Gaps Start Early
- 8 How Common Standards and Standardized Testing Widen the Opportunity Gap
- 9 A More Perfect UnionReconciling School Choice Policy with Equality of Opportunity Goals
- 10 Student and School Cultures and the Opportunity Gap
- 11 Meeting the Needs of Language Minorities
- 12 Tracking, Segregation, and the Opportunity Gap
- 13 Good Schools and Teachers for All Students
- 14 The Cumulative Costs of the Opportunity Gap
- 15 Enhancing a Nation’s Democracy through Equitable Schools
- 16 Building Opportunities to Achieve
- References
- Index
