In this volume, prominent scholars address educational and reading research from varied perspectives and discuss what it will take to close the achievement gap. Making a significant contribution to the field, the achievement gap is redefined as a level at which all groups can compete economically in our society and have the literacy tools and habits needed for a good life.
In this volume, prominent scholars address educational and reading research from varied perspectives and discuss what it will take to close the achievement gap. Making a significant contribution to the field, the achievement gap is redefined as a level at which all groups can compete economically in our society and have the literacy tools and habits needed for a good life.
Rosalind Horowitz is Professor, Discourse and Literacy Studies, Departments of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching and Educational Psychology, College of Education and Human Development, The University of Texas¿San Antonio, USA. S. Jay Samuels is Professor Emeritus, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education and Human Development, The University of MinnesotäTwin Cities, USA.
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Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. The Achievement Gap in Reading: Unique Historical and Future Perspectives Rosalind Horowitz and S. Jay Samuels Part I. Cases of Specific Demographics and Economics Chapter 2. Poverty¿s Powerful Effects on Reading Achievement and the Achievement Gap David Berliner Chapter 3. Creating Responsive Teachers of Hispanic and Bilingual Students Learning English Robert Jiménez, Sam David, Mark Pacheco, Victoria J. Risko, Lisa Pray, Keenan Fagan, and Mark Gonzales Chapter 4. Motivating and Instructing African American Students in Classrooms John T. Guthrie and Angela McRae Chapter 5. Closing the Reading Achievement Gap for Indigenous Children Jay S. Blanchard and Kim Atwill Part II. Conceptualizing and Measuring the Achievement Gaps in Reading Chapter 6. Why the Achievement Gap? Edmund W. Gordon and Paola C. Heincke Chapter 7. Including Differences in Variability in Assessing the Achievement Gap in Reading Michael Harwell Chapter 8. International Brain Wars: Adolescent Reading Proficiency, Performance, and Achievement from a Competitive Global Perspective Rosalind Horowitz Part III. Explaining and Reducing the Achievement Gaps in Reading Chapter 9. The Talk Gap Terrance D. Paul and Jill Gilkerson Chapter 10. Summer Reading Loss is the Basis of Almost all the Rich-Poor Reading Gap Richard L. Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen Part IV. Contradictory Efforts and Commonalities in Attempts to Close the Gaps in Reading Achievement Chapter 11. The Federal Effort: How Five Different and Sometimes Contradictory Efforts have been made to Close the Achievement Gap Richard Long and Alan Farstrup Chapter 12. Synthesis, Discussion, and Recommendations: What We Can Do to Advance Reading Achievement Rosalind Horowitz and S. Jay Samuels List of Contributors Author Index Subject Index
Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. The Achievement Gap in Reading: Unique Historical and Future Perspectives Rosalind Horowitz and S. Jay Samuels Part I. Cases of Specific Demographics and Economics Chapter 2. Poverty¿s Powerful Effects on Reading Achievement and the Achievement Gap David Berliner Chapter 3. Creating Responsive Teachers of Hispanic and Bilingual Students Learning English Robert Jiménez, Sam David, Mark Pacheco, Victoria J. Risko, Lisa Pray, Keenan Fagan, and Mark Gonzales Chapter 4. Motivating and Instructing African American Students in Classrooms John T. Guthrie and Angela McRae Chapter 5. Closing the Reading Achievement Gap for Indigenous Children Jay S. Blanchard and Kim Atwill Part II. Conceptualizing and Measuring the Achievement Gaps in Reading Chapter 6. Why the Achievement Gap? Edmund W. Gordon and Paola C. Heincke Chapter 7. Including Differences in Variability in Assessing the Achievement Gap in Reading Michael Harwell Chapter 8. International Brain Wars: Adolescent Reading Proficiency, Performance, and Achievement from a Competitive Global Perspective Rosalind Horowitz Part III. Explaining and Reducing the Achievement Gaps in Reading Chapter 9. The Talk Gap Terrance D. Paul and Jill Gilkerson Chapter 10. Summer Reading Loss is the Basis of Almost all the Rich-Poor Reading Gap Richard L. Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen Part IV. Contradictory Efforts and Commonalities in Attempts to Close the Gaps in Reading Achievement Chapter 11. The Federal Effort: How Five Different and Sometimes Contradictory Efforts have been made to Close the Achievement Gap Richard Long and Alan Farstrup Chapter 12. Synthesis, Discussion, and Recommendations: What We Can Do to Advance Reading Achievement Rosalind Horowitz and S. Jay Samuels List of Contributors Author Index Subject Index
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