Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance

Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance
ISBN-10
0199983011
ISBN-13
9780199983018
Series
Closing the Opportunity Gap
Category
Education
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2013-04-26
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Authors
Kevin G. Welner, Prudence L. Carter

Description

While the achievement gap has dominated policy discussions over the past two decades, relatively little attention has been paid to a gap even more at odds with American ideals: the opportunity gap. Opportunity and achievement, while inextricably connected, are very different goals. Every American will not go to college, but every American should be given a fair chance to be prepared for college. In communities across the U.S., children lack the crucial resources and opportunities, inside and outside of schools that they need if they are to reach their potential. Closing the Opportunity Gap offers accessible, research-based essays written by top experts who highlight the discrepancies that exist in our public schools, focusing on how policy decisions and life circumstances conspire to create the "opportunity gap" that leads inexorably to stark achievement gaps. They also describe sensible policies grounded in evidence that can restore and enhance opportunities. Moving beyond conventional academic discourse, Closing the Opportunity Gap will spark vital new conversations about what schools, parents, educators, and policymakers can and should do to give all children a fair chance to thrive.

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