Eliminating the Achievement Gap

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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The purpose of the Eliminating the Achievement Gapis to provide a resource for scholars and students into many of the most salient issues, trends, and factors that are most effective in reducing the achievement gap. Eliminating the Achievement Gap is particularly unique because it will: 1) utilize a meta-analysis to determine what factors contribute the most to reducing the achievement gap and 2) examine potential achievement gap reducing variables from across disciplines. These disciplines include education, sociology, economics, family science, psychology, public policy, and educational psychology. The second emphasis is largely based on the meta-analysis, because the results of the meta-analysis indicate that the best way to completely eliminate the achievement gap is to initiate a multidisciplinary approach to the achievement gap. It is the intention of this book to make scholars, educators, policymakers, parents, and the general public more aware of the factors that best bridge the achievement gap, so that they can take major steps to implementing comprehensive and multidisciplinary efforts. The more such efforts are inaugurated, the more the achievement gap will be reduced. The nine chapters of this book are therefore divided into four parts to reflect this extent of this comprehensive approach.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-10-04
Mått160 x 231 x 21 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor204
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498557634

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

In this one volume, William “Bill” Jeynes has conducted massive meta-analyses related to the achievement gap in the U.S.; he has drawn from multiple disciplines; and even offers us a surprising view of history starting before the nation’s founding. In this one text, Jeynes provides the richest and most complete picture of the factors related to the U.S. achievement gap. He reveals factors some of which we commonly know and others that will surprise the reader. There simply is no better source for understanding the troubling U.S. achievement gap. He concludes by thinking afresh about our taking on a transdisciplinary assault, pulling all the actors together.