Author:
Publisher: Combat Poverty Agency
ISBN: 1871643988
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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Author:
Publisher: Combat Poverty Agency
ISBN: 1871643961
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 21

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Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309170184
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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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.

Author: Stephen Gorard
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135009538
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Governments, local authorities, school leaders, and teachers all over the world want to improve the educational attainment and participation of all students, and to minimise any systematic differences in outcomes for social and economic groups. A particular concern is for those students from backgrounds that may objectively disadvantage them at school and beyond. However, considerable effort and money is currently being wasted on policies, practices and interventions that have very little hope of success, and that may indeed endanger the progress that is being made otherwise. The poor quality of much education research evidence, coupled with an unwillingness among users of evidence to discriminate appropriately between what we know and do not know, means that opportunities are being missed. At a time of reduced public spending it is important that proposed interventions are both effective and efficient. Overcoming Disadvantage in Education is unique in the way that it: Shows where the solutions to underachievement and poverty lie combines primary(new), secondary (official) and published (review) evidence distinguishes between those possible causes of underachievement that are largely fixed for individuals, and those that are modifiable. There are evidence-informed ways forward in handling under-achievement and increasing social justice in education. This book shows which the more likely approaches are, and where further work could yield further benefits. This book will be a key text for students, developing academic researchers and supervisors in the social sciences, and for those research users charged with improving educational outcomes.

Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9789264130845
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Across OECD countries, almost one in every five students does not reach a basic minimum level of skills. This book presents a series of policy recommendations for education systems to help all children succeed.

Author:
Publisher: Combat Poverty Agency
ISBN: 1871643937
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 29

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Author: Brian Fleming
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781786051158
Category : Children with social disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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Author: Dr Theo Cox
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135707081
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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The New Labour Government puts Education, Education, Education at the heart of its agenda but is it doing enough to combat educational disadvantage? Combating Educational Disadvantage sets the discussion of educational disadvantage within the socio-political context of the 1980s and 1990s, with its market philosophy in education and brings together the contributions of leading writers and researchers of international standing.

Author:
Publisher: Combat Poverty Agency
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: Kerr, Kirstin
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447311213
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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In England, as in countries across the world, shrinking public funding, growing localism, and increased school autonomy make tackling the link between education, disadvantage and place more important than ever. Challenging current thinking, this important book is the first to focus on the role of area-based initiatives in this struggle. It brings together a wide range of evidence to review the effectiveness of past initiatives, identify promising recent developments, and outline innovative ways forward for the future. It shows how local policymakers and practitioners can actively respond to the complexities of place and is aimed at all those actively seeking to tackle disadvantage, including policymakers, practitioners, academics and students, across education and the social sciences.