Equality and Achievement in Education

✍ Scribed by James S. Coleman

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 353
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book presents a major report that has evoked extensive controversy and initiated extensive policy debate on equality and achievement in education. It examines the concept of equality of educational opportunity and the relations between equality and achievement and between families and schools.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part One The Concept of Equal Educational Opportunity
1 Norms of Equal Opportunity: When and Why Do They Arise?
2 The Concept of Equality of Educational Opportunity
3 Inequality, Sociology, and Moral Philosophy
4 Rawls, Nozick, and Educational Equality
5 What Is Meant by 'an Equal Educational Opportunity'?
Part Two Equality of Educational Opportunity
6 A Brief Summary of the Coleman Report
7 Equality of Educational Opportunity
8 Equal Schools or Equal Students?
9 Toward Open Schools
10 The Evaluation of Equality of Educational Opportunity
11 Equality of Educational Opportunity, Reexamined
Part Three Desegregation and Resegregation
12 Trends in School Segregation, 1968-73
13 Presentation to the Massachusetts Legislature, March 30, 1976
14 Destructive Beliefs and Potential Policies in School Desegregation
15 The Role of Incentives in School Desegregation
Part Four Public and Private Schools
16 Quality and Equality in American Education: Public and Catholic Schools
17 Predicting the Consequences of Policy Changes: The Case of Public and Private Schools
18 Achievement Growth in Public and Catholic Schools
Part Five Families and Schools, Achievement and Equality
19 Schooling and Equality
20 Schools and the Communities They Serve
21 Families and Schools

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