Contributor
Timar, Thomas.
Imprint:Cambridge, MA : Harvard Education Press, c2012.
Descriptionvi, 328 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:Slow and uneven progress in narrowing achievement gaps on state tests / Nancy Kober, Victor Chudowsky, and Naomi Chudowsky -- Reframing the ecology of opportunity and achievement gaps: why "no excuses" reforms have failed to narrow student group differences in educational outcomes / Robert K. Ream, Sarah M Ryan, and Jose A. Espinosa -- Narrowing the multiple achievement gaps in the United States : eight goals for the long haul / W. Norton Grubb -- The achievement gap in California and beyond: context, status, and approaches for improvement / Eva L. Baker, Noelle C. Griffin, and Kilchan Choi -- Accessing high quality instructional strategies / Edmund T. Hamann and Janelle Reeves -- Organizational strategies for addressing the educational achievement gap Douglas E. Mitchell ... [et al.] -- Improving high schools as a strategy for closing the achievement gap / Russell W. Rumberger -- Teaching all our children well: teachers and teaching to close the achievement gap / Julie Maxwell-Jolly and Patricia Gandara -- Narrowing achievement gaps in tough times: rethinking the roles of money and school resources / W. Norton Grubb -- Partnering with families and communities to address academic disparities / Nancy Erbstein and Elizabeth Miller -- Reframing policy practice to close the achievement gap / Thomas B. Timar.
Bibliography Note:Bibliographical references and index.
