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Class and Schools

Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap

Richard Rothstein

Publication Date: October 7, 2004

Pages: 224

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ISBN: 9780807745564
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Description+

Contemporary public policy assumes that the achievement gap between black and white students could be closed if only schools would do a better job. According to Richard Rothstein, “Closing the gaps between lower-class and middle-class children requires social and economic reform as well as school improvement. Unfortunately, the trend is to shift most of the burden to schools, as if they alone can eradicate poverty and inequality.” In this book, Rothstein points the way toward social and economic reforms that would give all children a more equal chance to succeed in school.

Features:

  • A summary of numerous studies linking school achievement to health care quality, nutrition, childrearing styles, housing stability, parental economic security, and more.
  • A look at erroneous and misleading data that underlie commonplace claims that some schools “beat the demographic odds and therefore any school can close the achievement gap if only it adopted proper practices.”
  • Analysis of how the over-emphasis on standardized tests in federal law obscures the true achievement gap and makes narrowing it more difficult.
  • Description of rarely-noticed racial and socio-economic gaps in “non-cognitive” skills.
  • Estimates of the cost of reforms that could help narrow the achievement gap, such as including early childhood, after-school, and summer programs into a broader definition of schooling.

Author+

Richard Rothstein is the Julius and Rosa Sachs Distinguished Lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Reviews+

“A must read.”

—Choice

“This book is timely, persuasive, well written, and thorough.”

—American Journal of Education

“Rothstein has written a unique and powerful volume that needs to be read by scholars, policymakers, and practitioners who have the capacity to shape tomorrow.”
— From the Foreword by Arthur Levine, President, Teachers College, Columbia University

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