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Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Achievement Gapreviewed by Michael Williamson — 2005 Title: Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Achievement Gap Author(s): Richard Rothstein Publisher: Economic Policy Institute, Washington ISBN: 1932066098, Pages: 210, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com Since passage of the 2001 Elementary and Secondary Education
Act, titled the No Child Left Behind Act, the issue of
“adequate yearly progress” has dominated education
policy debate. There are those who see adequate yearly progress,
or AYP, as the vehicle through which the federal government will
finally foster quality education in
America
’s public schools. There are almost as many individuals, at
least according to popular polls, who view AYP as the tool
opponents of public education will use to dismantle our traditional
system of public schools.
The AYP debate has fostered the publication of numerous journal
articles and not a few books. These articles and books have argued
the issues from all possible political persuasions and ideological
viewpoints. Some of them have been polemical, some academic. Some
have argued their point of view with poignant anecdote; others have
depended on table after table of data. In this context Richard
Rothstein has authored a thoughtful and provocative offering,
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