Class And Schools: Using Social, Economic, And Educational Reform To Close The Black-white Achievement Gap

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 224 pages
• Published by: Teachers College Press May 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0807745561
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0807745564
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 14.4 ounces

Product Review
powerful volume that requirements to be read by scholars, policy makers, and practitioners who have the capacity to shape tomorrow. -- From the preface by Arthur E. Levine, president, Teachers College, Columbia University --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Description
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.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap (Paperback) "Class and Schools" is a perceptive study of what we can - and cannot - expect public schools to do on their own to narrow the black-white achievement gap. Rothstein is particularly astute in his descriptions of the subtle cognigitive and psychological skills that middle class students bring to school and how these skills serve them well, particularly in the upper grades. He also offers a critique of the "outlier" literature that draws overly broad conclusions from the fact that some schools serving disadvantaged students are effective. Many, if not most, readers will take issue with Rothstein over his policy recommendations, but anyone thinking seriously about the achievement gap will have to confront the major points that he makes and the evidence behind them.