The achievement gap in U.S. education : canaries in the mine / Mano Singham.

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Main Author: Singham, Mano
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : ScarecrowEducation, 2005.
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Physical Description:vii, 188 pages ; 23 cm
Variant Title:
Achievement gap in United States education.
Achievement gap in US education.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Education in the broad political context -- Myths about the achievement gap -- The case against the genetic model -- Income, wealth, and the achievement gap -- Other possible causes of the gap -- Success stories and what we can learn from them -- Why good teaching matters and what it takes to achieve it -- Why good teaching practices are relatively rare in U.S. schools and even rarer in poor and minority schools -- How and why did it get this way?. 
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