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Solving the Achievement Gap: Overcoming the Structure of School Inequality
Stuart S. Yeh
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Description for Solving the Achievement Gap: Overcoming the Structure of School Inequality
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNF; JNKD; JNL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 391.
This book examines the cause of the student achievement gap, suggesting that the prevailing emphasis on socioeconomic factors, sociocultural influences, and teacher quality is misplaced. The cause of the achievement gap is not differences in parenting styles, or the economic advantages of middle-class parents, or differences in the quality of teachers. Instead, schools present learning tasks and award grades in ways that inadvertently undermine the self-efficacy, engagement, and effort of low-performing students, causing demoralization and exacerbating differences in achievement that are seen to exist as early as kindergarten. This process systematically maintains and widens initial gaps in achievement that might ... Read more
This book examines the cause of the student achievement gap, suggesting that the prevailing emphasis on socioeconomic factors, sociocultural influences, and teacher quality is misplaced. The cause of the achievement gap is not differences in parenting styles, or the economic advantages of middle-class parents, or differences in the quality of teachers. Instead, schools present learning tasks and award grades in ways that inadvertently undermine the self-efficacy, engagement, and effort of low-performing students, causing demoralization and exacerbating differences in achievement that are seen to exist as early as kindergarten. This process systematically maintains and widens initial gaps in achievement that might ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137587664
SKU
V9781137587664
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99-15
About Stuart S. Yeh
Stuart S. Yeh is Associate Professor of Evaluation Studies at the University of Minnesota, USA. He has published numerous scholarly articles and two books regarding promising strategies for addressing the achievement gap, and has served as an invited expert at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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