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Income inequality has become
the defining issue in the U.S. since the end of the recession. With stagnant wages and declining mobility among the working and middle class, many Americans believe the economic system unfairly favors the wealthy. Education can change this. To do so, however, we need to create the right conditions for students to succeed (i.e., increasing opportunity) and explore solutions to help them move ahead (i.e., improving mobility). This issue of the
Journal of Social Issues,
Education Inequality: Opportunity and Mobility, focuses on this theme.
List of contents
INTRODUCTION Reframing the Inequality Debate toward Opportunity and Mobility 619
Norman Eng and Allan Ornstein SECTION I: OPPORTUNITY School Finance & the Distribution of Equal Educational Opportunity in the Postrecession U.S. 629
Bruce D. Baker The Social Genome Model: Estimating How Policies Affect Outcomes, Mobility and Inequality across the Life Course 656
Gregory Acs, Steven Martin, Jonathan A. Schwabish, and Isabel V. Sawhill Education Inequality: Broadening Public Attitudes through Framing 676
Norman Eng Global Equality of Educational Opportunity: Creating the Conditions for all Students to Succeed 696
Andreas Schleicher and Pablo Zoido SECTION II: MOBILITY From Deficiency to Strength: Shifting the Mindset about Education Inequality 720
Yong Zhao The Career Pathways Movement: A Promising Strategy for Increasing Opportunity and Mobility 740
Robert B. Schwartz Children's Reasoning about Poverty, Economic Mobility, and Helping Behavior: Results of a Curriculum Intervention in the Early School Years 760
Rashmita S. Mistry, Lindsey Nenadal, Katherine M. Griffin, Frederick J. Zimmerman, Hasmik Avetisian Cochran, Carla-Anne Thomas, and Christopher Wilson "I'm Still Waiting On That Golden Ticket": Attitudes toward and Experiences with Opportunity in The Streets of Black America 789
Yasser Arafat Payne and Tara Marie Brown SECTION III: COMMENTARY Commentary 812
Helen F. Ladd SECTION IV: LEWIN AWARD ADDRESS Carrying On Kurt Lewin's Legacy in Many Current Domains: Lewin Award 2015 828
Philip G. Zimbardo
About the author
Norman Eng is an adjunct assistant professor of childhood education at the City University of New York, Brooklyn College and City College of New York. His research focuses on 21
st century education, including publication in
Society journal and as a chapter in the book?
Contemporary Issues in Curriculum, published by Pearson in 2014. Most recently, he co-edited a symposium on
21st Century Excellence in Education with Allan Ornstein and published articles for the
National School Board Journal and
Education Week.
Allan Ornstein is a professor of education at St. John's University, New York. He is a former Fulbright-Hayes Scholar and Screening Committee Member of the Commission and author of more than four hundred articles and 60 books on education and social issues. His
Foundations of Education book is in its 13
th edition (since 1976) and his new book
Excellence vs. Equality, from which this article is based on, was recently published in 2015. Readers can check his website,
allanornsteinbooks.com, for more information.
