The Future of School Integration - Socioeconomic Diversity As an Education Reform Strategy

Informationen zum Autor Richard D. Kahlenberg is a senior fellow for education at The Century Foundation. He is the author of All Together Now: Creating Middle-Class Schools through Public School Choice (Brookings Press, 2001) and the editor of Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences in College Admissions (The Century Foundation Press, 2010) and Rewarding Strivers: Helping Low-Income Students Succeed in College (TCF Press, 2010). Klappentext Examines how socioeconomic school integration has been pursued as a strategy to reduce the proportion of high-poverty schools and therefore to improve the performance of students overall. It examines whether students learn more in socioeconomically integrated schools than in high-poverty institutions and explores the costs and benefits of integration programs. The book also investigates whether such integration is logistically and politically feasible. Zusammenfassung Looks at how socioeconomic school integration has been pursued as a strategy to reduce the proportion of high-poverty schools and therefore to improve the performance of students overall. This title examines whether students learn more in socioeconomically integrated schools - and pre-K programs - than in high-poverty institutions.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Richard D. Kahlenberg
• Con la collaborazione di: Richard D. Kahlenberg (Editore)
• Editore: Brookings Institution Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 29.02.2012
• EAN: 9780870785221
• ISBN: 978-0-87078-522-1
• Pagine: 320
• Serie: Century Foundation Books (Cent; Century Foundation Books (Cent
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Politica e sua amministrazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Istruzione