Opportunity and performance : equity for children from poverty

• Main Authors: Cavazos, Linda (Author), Layland, Allison (Author), Twyman, Janet (Author), Vuong, Bi (Author)
• Other Authors: Redding, Sam (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
• Series: Opportunity and performance
• Subjects: Poor > Political aspects.; Education > Educational Policy & Reform > General.; Educational strategies and policy.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806604029
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-64802-589-1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 pages)

Because everyone from policymakers to classroom teachers has a role in achieving greater equity for children from poverty, this book provides a sweeping chronicle of the historical turning points--judicial, legislative, and regulatory--on the road to greater equity, as background to the situation to...

Table of Contents:

• About the authors
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I. Tracing our steps toward equity
• Chapter 1. Where we have landed
• Chapter 2. The long and winding road
• Chapter 3. Equity in the every student succeeds act
• Chapter 4. Recommendations for states and districts
• Part II. Poverty's impact on learning
• Chapter 5. Poverty's impact on learning
• Part III. Disrupting poverty's impact on learning
• Chapter 6. Disrupting poverty's impact on learning
• Chapter 7. The problem
• Chapter 8. The solution
• Part IV. Measuring progress
• Chapter 9. Measuring progress
• Appendix.