Introduction / Jorge Ruiz de Velasco, Jeannie Oakes, and Marisa Saunders -- Section 1. Broadening our vision of learning time -- Chapter 1. Sparking an education movement: expanding learning time to raise achievement, empower teachers, and enrich education / Jennifer Davis and David Farbman -- Chapter 2. Beyond the school day: the necessary role of expanded learning opportunities in closing the achievement gap / Jessica Gunderson, Jennifer Peck, and Katie Brackenridge -- Chapter 3. More and better learning in community schools: lessons from Oakland / Kendra Fehrer and Jacob Leos-Urbel -- Chapter 4. Promise neighborhoods: expanding opportunities to learn and succeed from cradle through career / Michael McAfee and Jessica Pizarek -- Chapter 5. Linked learning: making the best of time for all students / Gary Hoachlander, Tameka McGlawn, and Brad Stam -- Section II. Linking opportunities and outcomes-why and how expanded learning time 'works" -- Chapter 6. Innovative uses of learning time: perspectives from the learning sciences / Ben Krishner and Rebecca G. Kaplan -- Chapter 7. Deep and meaningful learning: where do we find the time? / Elizabeth Birr Moje -- Chapter 8. English learners, immigrant students, and the challenge of time / Patricia Gándara -- Chapter 9. Time for social change: the youth development and educational outcomes of youth organizaing / Veronica Terriquez and John Rogers -- Chapter 10. Spatial inequality and gaps in expanded learning time opportunities / Paul Ong and Elena Ong -- Section III. Beyond the technical challenges -- Chapter 11. More and better learning time: strategies for improving teaching / Fred Frelow and Barnett Berry -- Chapter 12. Expanding learning time within the zone of mediation / Michelle René Valladares and Kevin Welner -- Chapter 13. Time in the struggle for education justice / Jeannie Oakes.
Summary:
In this book, the authors focus on how learning time--including the nature, quality, and quantity of that time--differs dramatically for affluent children and poor children and also explore a range of ways to improve the quality and quantity of learning time for children in poverty-- Provided by publisher.
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