Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance

by Gloria Ladson-Billings

Book Overview

While the achievement gap has dominated policy discussions over the past two decades, relatively little attention has been paid to a gap even more at odds with American ideals: the opportunity gap. Opportunity and achievement, while inextricably connected, are very different goals. Every American will not go to college, but every American should be given a fair chance to be prepared for college. In communities across the U.S., children lack the crucial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199982996
• ISBN13: 9780199982998
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 9.6"