The educator's handbook for understanding and closing achievement gaps [[electronic resource] /] / Joseph Murphy
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| Autore: |
Murphy Joseph <1949->
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| Titolo: |
The educator's handbook for understanding and closing achievement gaps [[electronic resource] /] / Joseph Murphy
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| Pubblicazione: | Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Corwin |
| London, : SAGE [distributor], c2010 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (vii, 293 p.) : ill |
| Disciplina: | 371.207 |
| Soggetto topico: | Academic achievement |
| Educational change | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; About the Author; Part I - Background; Chapter 1 - Bringing Achievement Gaps Into Focus; Chapter 2 - Portraying and Tracking Achievement Gaps; Part II - Grinding up Hope: Explaining the Development and Persistence of Achievement Gaps; Chapter 3 - Environmental Causes of Achievement Gaps: An Introduction; Chapter 4 - Environmental Causes of Achievement Gaps: Socioeconomic Status; Chapter 5 - Environmental Causes of Achievement Gaps: Family Environment; Chapter 6 - Environmental Causes of the Achievement Gap: Community, Racism, and Individual Differences |
| Chapter 7 - Environmental Causes of Achievement Gaps: Out-of-School Learning ExperiencesChapter 8 - Schooling Causes of the Achievement Gap: The Instructional Program; Chapter 9 - Schooling Causes of the Achievement Gap: School Culture, Structure, and Support; Part III - Opening the Doors of Possibility: Strategies for Closing Achievement Gaps; Chapter 10 - Closing Achievement Gaps: Focusing on the Social and Economic Environment; Chapter 11 - Closing Achievement Gaps: A Focus on Schooling; References; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book synthesizes the research in the field to help head teachers understand the achievement gap and provides strategies to address the external society factors and internal school factors that contribute to this issue. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The educator's handbook for understanding and closing achievement gaps |
| ISBN: | 1-4522-7296-4 |
| 1-4522-1925-7 | |
| 1-4522-0914-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779481503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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