School Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps

by Ron Haskins

The Future of Children is a new semiannual publication that provies research and analysis to promote effective policies and programs for children. This first issue focuses on School Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps.

For more than 30 years, researchers have seen white children outperform black and other minority children in tests of reading and math skills. Though there is evidence that the gap has narrowed somewhat, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815755597
• ISBN13: 9780815755593
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 10.0"