William Jeynes

Eliminating the Achievement Gap

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Eliminating the Achievement Gap is designed to be the first book to base society's efforts to reduce the achievement gap on meta-analytic analysis. It proposes an interdisciplinary approach to this problem that is rare, refreshing, and insightful, including solutions generally overlooked.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9781498557634
• ISBN-10: 1498557635
• Artikelnr.: 57166799

Autorenporträt

William Jeynes is professor at California State University in Long Beach and a senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Research- and Historically- Based
Foundations for Addressing the Achievement Gap Chapter 1: History of
Attempts to Reduce the Achievement Gap Chapter 2: A Meta-Analysis on the
Factors that Best Reduce the Achievement Gap Chapter 3: The Significance of
the Results of the Meta-Analysis in Historical Context Part II: Factors
Reducing that Gap that Require Broad Changes in Public Policy Chapter 4:
The Need for an Inner City Renaissance: The Interaction of Health,
Education, and Welfare Part III: Factors Reducing that Gap that Require a
Cultural and School-Based Effort Chapter 5: The Role of the Family and
Parental Involvement in Reducing the Achievement Gap Chapter 6: Broadening
the Concept of Gaps, Why They Exist, and What Can Be Done to Alleviate Them
Chapter 7: Cultural and School Resources that Can Reduce the Achievement
Gap Chapter 8: How Various School Initiatives of the Past Half-Century Have
Either Exacerbated or Reduced the Achievement Gap Chapter 9: Future Hope
and the Achievement Gap Bibliography Index About the Author