Mano Singham

The Achievement Gap in U.S. Education

Canaries in the Mine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Here, Mano Singham takes a look at the problem of the Black/White achievement gap in the context of larger political realities and argues that in order to understand it we must determine what is happening within the educational system as a whole.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: R&L Education
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781578862177
• ISBN-10: 1578862175
• Artikelnr.: 21145849

Autorenporträt

By Mano Singham

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 1 Introduction Chapter 3 2 Education in
the Broad Political Context Chapter 4 3 Myths about the Achievement Gap
Chapter 5 4 The Case against the Genetic Model Chapter 6 5 Income, Wealth,
and the Achievement Gap Chapter 7 6 Other Possible Causes of the Gap
Chapter 8 7 Success Stories and What We Can Learn from Them Chapter 9 8 Why
Good Teaching Matters and What It Takes to Achieve It Chapter 10 9 Why Good
Teaching Practices Are Relatively Rare in U.S. Schools and Even Rarer in
Poor and Minority Schools Chapter 11 10 How and Why Did It Get This Way?
Part 12 Index Part 13 About the Author