Achievement Gap in U.s. Education - Canaries in the Mine

Informationen zum Autor By Mano Singham Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Mano Singham, Singham Mano
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.05.2005
• EAN: 9781578862177
• ISBN: 978-1-57886-217-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / General, Education, Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy