Notion at risk preserving public education as an engine for social mobility

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Making K-12 public education an engine for social mobility / Richard D. Kahlenberg -- Summer learning and home environment / Doris Entwisle, Karl Alexander, and Linda Olson -- Equalizing education resources on behalf of disadvantaged children / Richard Rothstein -- High standards : a strategy for equalizing opportunities to learn? / Adam Gamoran -- Inequality in teaching and schooling : supporting high-quality teaching and leadership in low income schools / Linda Darling-Hammond and Laura Post -- Charter schools and racial and social class segregation : yet another sorting machine? / Amy Stuart Wells ... [et al.] -- Student discipline and academic achievement / Paul Barton -- Critical support : the public view of public education / Ruy Teixeira.