| Description |
331 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Harvard educational review. Reprint series ; no. 43 |
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Harvard educational review. Reprint series ; no. 43.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Poverty and education / Raewyn Connell -- "Improve the women": mass schooling, female literacy, and worldwide social change / Robert A. Levine, Sarah E. Levine, Beatrice Schnell-Anzola -- Cognitive skill and economic inequality: findings from the National Adult Literacy Survey / Stephen W. Raudenbush, Rafa M. Kasim -- The politics of culture: understanding local political resistance to detracking in racially mixed schools / Amy Stuart Wells, Irene Serna -- Structuring failure and success: understanding the variability in Latino school engagement / Gilberto Q. Conchas -- Student social class and teacher expectations: the self-fulfilling prophecy in ghetto education / Ray C. Rist -- The Algebra Project: organizing in the spirit of Ella / Robert Parris Moses ... [et al.] -- Citizenship for all in the literate community: an ethnography of young children with significant disabilities in inclusive early childhood settings / Christopher Kliewer ... [et al.] -- Lessons from students on creating a chance to dream / Sonia Nieto -- Afterword: Opportunity now: raising achievement in spite of structural impediments / Ronald F. Ferguson. |
| Subject |
Educational equalization -- United States.
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Community and school -- United States.
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Academic achievement -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Da Silva, Carol DeShano.
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| ISBN |
9780916690472 paperback |
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0916690474 paperback |
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