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Title:
Whither opportunity? : rising inequality, schools, and children's life chances / Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane, editors.
Publisher:
Russell Sage Foundation ;
Copyright Date:
c2011
Description:
xix, 551 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Poor children--Education--United States.
Children with social disabilities--Education--United States.
Other Authors:
Duncan, Greg J.
Murnane, Richard J.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Educational mobility in the United States since the 1930s / Michael Hout and Alexander Janus -- Lessons from neuroscience research for understanding causal links between family and neighborhood characteristics and educational outcomes / Charles A. Nelson III and Margaret A. Sheridan -- The nature and impact of early achievement skills, attention skills, and behavior problems / Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson -- Middle and high school skills, behaviors, attitudes, and curriculum enrollment, and their consequences / George Farkas -- The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor : new evidence and possible explanations / Sean F. Reardon -- Inequality in postsecondary education / Martha J. Bailey and Susan M. Dynarski -- Educational expectations and attainment / Brian A. Jacob and Tamara Wilder Linkow -- Educational mobility in the United States since the 1930s / Michael Hout and Alexander Janus --
How does parental unemployment affect children's educational performance? / Phillip B. Levine -- Parenting, time use, and disparities in academic outcomes / Meredith Phillips -- Family-structure instability and adolescent educational outcomes : a focus on families with stepfathers / Megan M. Sweeney -- Converging evidence for neighborhood effects on children's test scores : an experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational comparison / Julia Burdick-Will ... [et al.] -- Unpacking neighborhood influences on education outcomes : setting the stage for future research / David Harding ... [et al.] -- The effects of local employment losses on children's educational achievement / Elizabeth O. Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, and Christina M. Gibson-Davis -- How does parental unemployment affect children's educational performance? / Phillip B. Levine -- The
It may not take a village : increasing achievement among the poor / Vilsa E. Curto, Roland G. Fryer Jr., and Meghan L. Howard -- Year-by-year and cumulative impacts of attending a high-mobility elementary school on children's mathematics achievement in Chicago, 1995 to 2005 / Stephen W. Raudenbush, Marshall Jean, and Emily Art -- The effect of school neighborhoods on teachers' career decisions / Don Boyd ... [et al.] -- Crime and the production of safe schools / David S. Kirk and Robert J. Sampson -- Immigrants and inequality in public schools / Amy Ellen Schwartz and Leanna Stiefel -- School desegregation and the black-white test score gap / Jacob L. Vigdor -- The challenges of finding causal links between family educational practices and schooling outcomes / Frank F. Furstenberg -- It may not take a village : increasing achievement among the poor / Vilsa E. Curto, Roland G. Fryer Jr., and Meghan L. Howard --
Intervening to improve the educational outcomes of students in poverty : lessons from recent work in high-poverty schools / Brian Rowan. Intervening to improve the educational outcomes of students in poverty : lessons from recent work in high-poverty schools / Brian Rowan.
ISBN:
9780871543240 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0871543249 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0871543729 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780871543721 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)725295871
LCCN:
2011016969
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

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