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02659aam a2200361 4500 001 596BB9B44F2711EB9A63D65926ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210105012357 008 140502s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2014009331 020 $a 0807033731 020 $a 9780807033739 020 $a 0807033723 020 $a 9780807033722 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d DLC $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Schwarz, Eric, $d 1960- 245 14 $a The opportunity equation : $b how citizen teachers are combating the achievement gap in America's schools / $c Eric Schwarz. 264 1 $a Boston : $b Beacon Press, $c 2014. 300 $a p. cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Citizen Schools is a fresh and personal look at education and the increasingly unequal access to opportunity in America. The book gets beyond the tired debate about charter schools and unions and tests to look at what is really driving the growing opportunity gap - what Schwarz calls a chasm - between upper and lower income children. Schwarz charts the supports and experiences that marked his own childhood and that of his children and shares the story of Citizen Schools, the organization he built, and the thousands of children it serves who were born with little money and few connections but by virtue of repeated positive experiences with professionally successful adults are now catapulting their way into good colleges and good careers. While differences in school and teacher quality contribute to growing opportunity and achievement gaps, Schwarz shares stories and convincing data that demonstrate most of the gap comes from extra learning opportunities offered outside of school. Schwarz shares heartwarming as well as tragic stories and cutting edge research, describing a world in which the real driver of achievement gaps has little to do with tests or schools or even teachers, but instead has everything to do with social networks and chances to "experience success with successful people." "-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20141120. 650 $a Educational equalization $z United States. 650 $a Community power $z United States. 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Volunteer Work. 650 1 $a Social action $z United States. 650 $a Community and school $z United States. 650 7 $a EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General. 650 $a Educational change $z United States $x Citizen participation. 856 2 $u 9780807033722.jpg $3 Cover image 941 $a 1 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20220728013257.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=596BB9B44F2711EB9A63D65926ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search