Achieving High Educational Standards for All:

Conference Summary

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Timothy Ready, Christopher Edley, Jr., and Catherine E. Snow, Editors, National Research Council
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This volume summarizes a range of scientific perspectives on the important goal of achieving high educational standards for all students. Based on a conference held at the request of the U.S. Department of Education, it addresses three questions: ...
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Front Matter	i-xiv
Part I: Conference Summary: 1 Introduction	1-12	(skim)
2 Education and the Changing Nation	13-28	(skim)
3 How People Learn	29-51	(skim)
4 Social Dimensions of Learning	52-67	(skim)
5 Policy and the Education of Minority and Disadvantaged Students	68-85	(skim)
6 Linking Research and Practice	86-101	(skim)
References	102-114	(skim)
Part II: Perspectives of the Co-Moderators: Overview	115-122	(skim)
Education Reform in Context: Research, Politics, and Civil Rights	123-146	(skim)
Part III: Conference Papers: Trends in the Educational Achievement of Minority Students Since Brown v. Board of Education	147-182	(skim)
Why Racial Integration and Other Policies Since Brown v. Board of Education Have Only Partially Succeeded at Narrowing the Achievement Gap	183-217	(skim)
Education, Adequacy, Democracy, and the Courts	218-268	(skim)
Appendix A: Conference and Workshop Agendas	269-278	(skim)
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Conference Presenters	279-286	(skim)

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This volume summarizes a range of scientific perspectives on the important goal of achieving high educational standards for all students. Based on a conference held at the request of the U.S. Department of Education, it addresses three questions: What progress has been made in advancing the education of minority and disadvantaged students since the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision nearly 50 years ago? What does research say about the reasons of successes and failures? What are some of the strategies and practices that hold the promise of producing continued improvements? The volume draws on the conclusions of a number of important recent NRC reports, including How People Learn, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, Eager to Learn, and From Neurons to Neighborhoods, among others. It includes an overview of the conference presentations and discussions, the perspectives of the two co-moderators, and a set of background papers on more detailed issues.

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