Opportunity and Performance

Equity for Children from Poverty

Linda Cavazos, Allison Layland, Janet Twyman, Bi Vuong, Sam Redding

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781648025877
  9781648025884
• eBook ISBN:
  9781648025891
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Educational Policy

Because everyone from policymakers to classroom teachers has a role in achieving greater equity for children from poverty, this book provides a sweeping chronicle of the historical turning points—judicial, legislative, and regulatory—on the road to greater equity, as background to the situation today. It provides succinct policy recommendations for states and districts, as well as practical curricular and instructional strategies for districts, schools, and teachers. This comprehensive approach—from the statehouse to the classroom—for providing children who come to school from impoverished environments with the education in which they thrive, not merely one that is comparable to others, truly enlists everyone in the quest for opportunity and performance. The next step toward equity may be taken by a governor, but it may also be taken by a teacher. One need not wait for the other.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Opportunity And Performance
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Authors
• Preface
• Introduction
• PART 1: Tracing Our Steps Toward Equity
• PART 2: Poverty's Impact on Learning
• PART 3 Disrupting Poverty's Impact on Learning
• PART 4 Measuring Progress
• APPENDI X :Glossary of Terms
• Appendix: Glossary of Terms