Education Inequality

Norman Eng is an adjunct assistant professor of childhood education at the City University of New York, Brooklyn College and City College of New York. His research focuses on 21st century education, including publication in Society journal and as a chapter in the book?Contemporary Issues in Curriculum, published by Pearson in 2014. Most recently, he co-edited a symposium on 21st Century Excellence in Education with Allan Ornstein and published articles for the National School Board Journal and Education Week.Allan Ornstein is a professor of education at St. John's University, New York. He is a former Fulbright-Hayes Scholar and Screening Committee Member of the Commission and author of more than four hundred articles and 60 books on education and social issues. His Foundations of Education book is in its 13th edition (since 1976) and his new book Excellence vs. Equality, from which this article is based on, was recently published in 2015. Readers can check his website, allanornsteinbooks.com, for more information.

• INTRODUCTIONReframing the Inequality Debate toward Opportunity and Mobility 619Norman Eng and Allan OrnsteinSECTION I: OPPORTUNITYSchool Finance & the Distribution of Equal Educational Opportunity in the Postrecession U.S. 629Bruce D. Baker The Social Genome Model: Estimating How Policies Affect Outcomes, Mobility and Inequality across the Life Course 656Gregory Acs, Steven Martin, Jonathan A. Schwabish, and Isabel V. SawhillEducation Inequality: Broadening Public Attitudes through Framing 676Norman EngGlobal Equality of Educational Opportunity: Creating the Conditions for all Students to Succeed 696Andreas Schleicher and Pablo ZoidoSECTION II: MOBILITYFrom Deficiency to Strength: Shifting the Mindset about Education Inequality 720Yong ZhaoThe Career Pathways Movement: A Promising Strategy for Increasing Opportunity and Mobility 740Robert B. SchwartzChildren's Reasoning about Poverty, Economic Mobility, and Helping Behavior: Results of a Curriculum Intervention in the Early School Years 760Rashmita S. Mistry, Lindsey Nenadal, Katherine M. Griffin, Frederick J. Zimmerman, Hasmik Avetisian Cochran, Carla-Anne Thomas, and Christopher Wilson"I'm Still Waiting On That Golden Ticket": Attitudes toward and Experiences with Opportunity in The Streets of Black America 789Yasser Arafat Payne and Tara Marie BrownSECTION III: COMMENTARYCommentary 812Helen F. LaddSECTION IV: LEWIN AWARD ADDRESSCarrying On Kurt Lewin's Legacy in Many Current Domains: Lewin Award 2015 828Philip G. Zimbardo