The Achievement Gap in U.S. Education

Here, Mano Singham takes a look at the problem of the Black/White achievement gap in the context of larger political realities and argues that in order to understand it we must determine what is happening within the educational system as a whole.

Anne E. Duggan is an Assistant Professor of French at Wayne State University.

Acknowledgments

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1 Introduction

1

(8)

2 Education in the Broad Political Context

9

(20)

3 Myths about the Achievement Gap

29

(18)

4 The Case against the Genetic Model

47

(12)

5 Income, Wealth, and the Achievement Gap

59

(8)

6 Other Possible Causes of the Gap

67

(14)

7 Success Stories and What We Can Learn from Them

81

(16)

8 Why Good Teaching Matters and What It Takes to Achieve It

97

(40)

9 Why Good Teaching Practices Are Relatively Rare in U.S. Schools and Even Rarer in Poor and Minority Schools

137

(22)

10 How and Why Did It Get This Way?

159

(24)

Index

183

(4)

About the Author

187

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The Achievement Gap in U.S. Education Canaries in the Mine

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