academic achievement
accountability movement
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economic inequality
educational equalization
educational failure in American schools
educational opportunity
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student social class
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- ISBN 9780916690472
- Weight: 595g
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2007
- Publisher: Harvard Educational Review,U.S.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The achievement gap looms large in the current era of high-stakes testing and accountability. Yet questions persist: Has the accountability movement—and attendant discussions on the achievement gap—focused attention on the true sources of educational failure in American schools? Do we need to look beyond classrooms and schools for credible accounts of disparities in educational outcomes? This book aims to shift attention from the current overwhelming emphasis on schools in discussions of the achievement gap to more fundamental questions about social and educational opportunity. Together its essays reintroduce the overlooked central issue in educational inequity: the lack of opportunity that many social groups face in our common quest for educational attainment. In a series of wide-ranging and carefully nuanced essays, The Opportunity Gap casts much-needed light on the vexed relationship between society and education—and on the crucial, persistent role that education plays in addressing social ills.
Carol DeShano Da Silva is a doctoral student in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy with a focus on International Education, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.James Philip Huguley is a doctoral student in Human Development and Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, with a focus on adolescent development in urban education.Zenub Kakli is a doctoral student in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Zeynep F. Beykont works as a researcher and consultant in school, museum, and community-based educational programs serving ethnic and language minority groups in the United States and internationally.
