Richard R Valencia

Students of Color and the Achievement Gap

Systemic Challenges, Systemic Transformations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Students of Color and the Achievement Gap is a comprehensive, landmark analysis of an incontrovertible racialized reality in U.S. K-12 public education---the relentless achievement gap between low-socioeconomic students of color and their economically advantaged White counterparts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9781138018808
• ISBN-10: 1138018805
• Artikelnr.: 41609257

Autorenporträt

Richard R. Valencia is a professor educational psychology and faculty associate in the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Problem. 1. The Achievement Gap. 2. Competing Models to Explain
the Achievement Gap. Part II. Macrolevel-Factors. 3. The "Other" Gaps:
Income, Housing, and Health. Part III. Mesolevel-Factors. 4. School
Segregation, Desegregation, and Integration. 5. Teacher Quality. 6.
Language Suppression and Cultural Exclusion. 7. Curriculum Differentiation.
Part IV. Microlevel-Factors. 8. Parental Engagement and Empowerment. 9.
Student Agency and Empowerment. Last Thoughts.