Eliminating the Achievement Gap. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: William Jeynes.
• Authors: Jeynes, William
• 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
• Publisher Details: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (188 pages), (17 illustrations)
• Subjects: Education: Inclusive Education
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498557641; 1498557643
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.