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This book examines the cause of the student achievement gap, suggesting that the prevailing emphasis on socioeconomic factors, sociocultural influences, and teacher quality is misplaced. The cause of the achievement gap is not differences in parenting styles, or the economic advantages of middle-class parents, or differences in the quality of teachers. Instead, schools present learning tasks and award grades in ways that inadvertently undermine the self-efficacy, engagement, and effort of low-performing students, causing demoralization and exacerbating differences in achievement that are seen to exist as early as kindergarten. This process systematically maintains and widens initial gaps in achievement that might otherwise be expected to disappear over the K-12 years. Misdiagnosis of the nature of the achievement gap has led to misguided solutions. The author draws upon a range of research studies to support this view and to offer recommendations for improvement. < ** Review “Quite intriguing...this book suggests that something bad is happening inside of our schools. I'm particularly fascinated by the idea that public schools function -- in the US at least -- as machines that destr

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Author

Stuart S. Yeh

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137587671

Category

education

Subjects

Sociology, Philosophy, Education

Rating

4.6 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14