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Title A notion at risk : preserving public education as an engine for social mobility / Richard D. Kahlenberg, editor
Published New York : Century Foundation Press, 2000

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Description vii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Making K-12 public education an engine for social mobility / Richard D. Kahlenberg -- Summer learning and home environment / Doris Entwisle, Karl Alexander, and Linda Olson -- Equalizing education resources on behalf of disadvantaged children / Richard Rothstein -- High standards : a strategy for equalizing opportunities to learn? / Adam Gamoran -- Inequality in teaching and schooling : supporting high-quality teaching and leadership in low income schools / Linda Darling-Hammond and Laura Post -- Charter schools and racial and social class segregation : yet another sorting machine? / Amy Stuart Wells ... [et al.] -- Student discipline and academic achievement / Paul Barton -- Critical support : the public view of public education / Ruy Teixeira
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Educational equalization -- United States.
Education -- Social aspects -- United States.
Public schools -- United States.
Educational change -- United States.
Author Kahlenberg, Richard D.
LC no. 00010644
ISBN 0870784552 alkaline paper
Other Titles Preserving public education as an engine for social mobility