Can Education Reduce Social Inequity?

TY - JOUR

T1 - Can Education Reduce Social Inequity?

AU - Slavin, Robert

N1 - Database: ERIC Record type: New. Language: English DataStar source field: Educational Leadership, Dec-Jan 1997-1998, vol. 55, no. 4, p. 6-10, ISSN: 0013-1784. DataStar update date: 19990101

PY - 1998

Y1 - 1998

N2 - Academic performance differences among children from varied socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds are unacceptably large. Instead of waiting for U.S. society to solve its inequity problems, educators must prepare all children to achieve their full potential. Educators should think of all children as promising, use early-intervention strategies, and "overdetermine" children's success, using programs such as Success for All or Reading Recovery. (12 references) (MLH).

AB - Academic performance differences among children from varied socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds are unacceptably large. Instead of waiting for U.S. society to solve its inequity problems, educators must prepare all children to achieve their full potential. Educators should think of all children as promising, use early-intervention strategies, and "overdetermine" children's success, using programs such as Success for All or Reading Recovery. (12 references) (MLH).

M3 - Article

SN - 1741-1432

VL - 55

SP - 6

EP - 10

JO - educational management administration & leadership

JF - educational management administration & leadership

IS - 4

ER -