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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
William Jeynes is a Professor at California State University and a Senior Fellow at the Witherspoon Institute (Princeton, NJ)
Summary
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.
