Lexington Books
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978-1-4985-5763-4 • Hardback • October 2019 • $90.00 • (£60.00)
978-1-4985-5764-1 • eBook • October 2019 • $85.50 • (£60.00)
William Jeynes is professor at California State University in Long Beach and a senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Research- and Historically- Based Foundations for Addressing the Achievement Gap
Chapter 1: History of Attempts to Reduce the Achievement Gap
Chapter 2: A Meta-Analysis on the Factors that Best Reduce the Achievement Gap
Chapter 3: The Significance of the Results of the Meta-Analysis in Historical Context
Part II: Factors Reducing that Gap that Require Broad Changes in Public Policy
Chapter 4: The Need for an Inner City Renaissance: The Interaction of Health, Education, and Welfare
Part III: Factors Reducing that Gap that Require a Cultural and School-Based Effort
Chapter 5: The Role of the Family and Parental Involvement in Reducing the Achievement Gap
Chapter 6: Broadening the Concept of Gaps, Why They Exist, and What Can Be Done to Alleviate Them
Chapter 7: Cultural and School Resources that Can Reduce the Achievement Gap
Chapter 8: How Various School Initiatives of the Past Half-Century Have Either Exacerbated or Reduced the Achievement Gap
Chapter 9: Future Hope and the Achievement Gap
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
In this one volume, William “Bill” Jeynes has conducted massive meta-analyses related to the achievement gap in the U.S.; he has drawn from multiple disciplines; and even offers us a surprising view of history starting before the nation’s founding. In this one text, Jeynes provides the richest and most complete picture of the factors related to the U.S. achievement gap. He reveals factors some of which we commonly know and others that will surprise the reader. There simply is no better source for understanding the troubling U.S. achievement gap. He concludes by thinking afresh about our taking on a transdisciplinary assault, pulling all the actors together.
— Mary Poplin, Faculty in the School of Educational Studies, Claremont Graduate University
William Jeynes masterfully outlines the complex problems of the achievement gap, from historical to current day issues. His data-driven book shows us why families matter and makes an undeniable call for homes, schools, faith-based institutions, and other community organizations to work together.
— Susan J. Paik, Claremont Graduate University
Jeynes’ work approaches the achievement gap through a variety of frameworks that will surely elicit much discussion, debate, and pushback for education workers who have made the compelling argument that there actually exists an opportunity gap. I certainly look forward to listening and participating in these important conversations, as Jeynes and other education researchers clamor for justice for children, youth, and families using these competing ways of examining schooling disparities for marginalized groups in the United States.
— Rene Antrop-Gonzalez, Metropolitan State University