Eliminating the Achievement Gap

William Jeynes is professor at California State University in Long Beach and a senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ.

In this one volume, William “Bill” Jeynes has conducted massive meta-analyses related to the achievement gap in the U.S.; he has drawn from multiple disciplines; and even offers us a surprising view of history starting before the nation’s founding. In this one text, Jeynes provides the richest and most complete picture of the factors related to the U.S. achievement gap. He reveals factors some of which we commonly know and others that will surprise the reader. There simply is no better source for understanding the troubling U.S. achievement gap. He concludes by thinking afresh about our taking on a transdisciplinary assault, pulling all the actors together.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The Research- and Historically- Based Foundations for Addressing the Achievement GapChapter 1: History of Attempts to Reduce the Achievement GapChapter 2: A Meta-Analysis on the Factors that Best Reduce the Achievement GapChapter 3: The Significance of the Results of the Meta-Analysis in Historical ContextPart II: Factors Reducing that Gap that Require Broad Changes in Public PolicyChapter 4: The Need for an Inner City Renaissance: The Interaction of Health, Education, and WelfarePart III: Factors Reducing that Gap that Require a Cultural and School-Based EffortChapter 5: The Role of the Family and Parental Involvement in Reducing the Achievement GapChapter 6: Broadening the Concept of Gaps, Why They Exist, and What Can Be Done to Alleviate ThemChapter 7: Cultural and School Resources that Can Reduce the Achievement GapChapter 8: How Various School Initiatives of the Past Half-Century Have Either Exacerbated or Reduced the Achievement GapChapter 9: Future Hope and the Achievement GapBibliographyIndexAbout the Author