Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap
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Published by Economic Policy Institute, 2005
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Contemporary public policy assumes that the achievement gap between black and white students could be closed if only schools would do a better job. In this book, Rothstein points the way toward social and economic reforms that would give all children a more equal chance to succeed in school.
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- Title
- Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap
- Author
- Richard Rothstein
- Publisher
- Economic Policy Institute
- Publication year
- 2005
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- Good
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
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- 1932066098
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- 9781932066098
It seems to be a common-sense argument that, if teachers know how to teach reading, or math, or any other subject, and if schools emphasize the importance of these tasks and permit no distractions, children should be able to learn regardless of their family income or skin color. But this perspective is misleading and dangerous. It ignores how social class characteristics in a stratified society like ours influence learning in school. For nearly half a century, the association between social and economic disadvantage and the student achievement gap has been well known to economists, sociologists, and educators. Most, however, have avoided the obvious implication of this understanding, that raising the achievement of lower-class children requires that public policy address the social and economic conditions of these childrens lives, not just school reform.
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Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a visiting lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is also the author of The Way We Were? The Myths and Realities of Americas Student Achievement (Century Foundation Press 1998).
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