Bridging the achievement gap / John E. Chubb, Tom Loveless, editors.
Annotation The achievement gap between white students and African American and Hispanic students has been debated by scholars and lamented by policymakers since it was first documented in 1966. The average black or Hispanic secondary school student currently achieves at about the same level as the a...
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Table of Contents:
- Bridging the achievement gap / John Chubb, Tom Loveless
- Would smaller classes help close the Black-white achievement gap? / Alan B. Krueger, Diane M. Whitmore
- Voucher progams and the effect of ethnicity on test scores / Paul E. Peterson, William G. Howell
- "Success for all" and African-American and Latino student achievement / Robert E. Slavin, Nancy A. Madden
- Wisconsin's SAGE Program and achievement through small classes / Alex Molnar ... [and others]
- High-stakes testing, accountability, and student achievement in Texas and Houston / Laurence A. Toenjes ... [and others]
- Schools that work / Abigail Thernstrom, Stephan Thernstrom
- High achievement in mathematics : lessons from three Los Angeles elementary schools / David Klein
- Tracking and the achievement gap / Samuel R. Lucas, Adam Gamoran
- The role of federal resources in closing the achievement gap / Ann Flanagan, David Grissmer.