Eliminating the Achievement Gap

William Jeynes

doi:10.5771/9781498557641

Summary

The purpose of the Eliminating the Achievement Gapis to provide a resource for scholars and students into many of the most salient issues, trends, and factors that are most effective in reducing the achievement gap. Eliminating the Achievement Gap is particularly unique because it will: 1) utilize a meta-analysis to determine what factors contribute the most to reducing the achievement gap and 2) examine potential achievement gap reducing variables from across disciplines. These disciplines include education, sociology, economics, family science, psychology, public policy, and educational psychology. The second emphasis is largely based on the meta-analysis, because the results of the meta-analysis indicate that the best way to completely eliminate the achievement gap is to initiate a multidisciplinary approach to the achievement gap. It is the intention of this book to make scholars, educators, policymakers, parents, and the general public more aware of the factors that best bridge the achievement gap, so that they can take major steps to implementing comprehensive and multidisciplinary efforts. The more such efforts are inaugurated, the more the achievement gap will be reduced. The nine chapters of this book are therefore divided into four parts to reflect this extent of this comprehensive approach.

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Edition: 1/2019
Copyright year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-5763-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-5764-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 196
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 2
1. 1 History of Attempts to Reduce the Achievement Gap No access
2. 2 A Meta-Analysis on the Factors That Best Reduce the Achievement Gap No access
3. 3 The Significance of the Results of the Meta-Analysis in Historical Context No access
1. 4 The Need for an Inner-City Renaissance: The Interaction of Health, Education, and Welfare No access
1. 5 The Role of the Family and Parental Involvement in Reducing the Achievement Gap No access
2. 6 Broadening the Concept of Gaps, Why They Exist, and What Can Be Done to Alleviate Them No access
3. 7 Cultural and School Resources That Can Reduce the Achievement Gap No access
4. 8 How Various School Initiatives of the Past Half-Century Have Either Exacerbated or Reduced the Achievement Gap No access
1. 9 Future Hope and the Achievement Gap No access
References No access Pages 157 - 186
Index No access Pages 187 - 194
About the Author No access Pages 195 - 196