Eliminating the Achievement Gap

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The purpose of the Eliminating the Achievement Gap is to provide a resource for scholars and students into many of the most salient issues, trends, and factors that are most effective in reducing the achievement gap. Eliminating the Achievement Gap is particularly unique because it will: 1) utilize a meta-analysis to determine what factors contribute the most to reducing the achievement gap and 2) examine potential achievement gap reducing variables from across disciplines. These disciplines include education, sociology, economics, family science, psychology, public policy, and educational psychology. The second emphasis is largely based on the meta-analysis, because the results of the meta-analysis indicate that the best way to completely eliminate the achievement gap is to initiate a multidisciplinary approach to the achievement gap. It is the intention of this book to make scholars, educators, policymakers, parents, and the general public more aware of the factors that best bridge the achievement gap, so that they can take major steps to implementing comprehensive and multidisciplinary efforts. The more such efforts are inaugurated, the more the achievement gap will be reduced. The nine chapters of this book are therefore divided into four parts to reflect this extent of this comprehensive approach.

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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 nations 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. -- Mary Poplin, Faculty in the School of Educational Studies, Claremont Graduate University
William Jeynes masterfully outlines the complex problems of the achievement gap, from historical to current day issues. His data-driven book shows us why families matter and makes an undeniable call for homes, schools, faith-based institutions, and other community organizations to work together. -- Susan J. Paik, Claremont Graduate University

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