This long-awaited solution-oriented book helps readers understand how inequality is organized
in our public educational system. A four-component developmental model provides a
policy-oriented framework that takes into account how children are socialized in and out of
schools. Given an educational system that produces unequal opportunities for student learning
closing the gap requires thinking out of a box and the current conglomeration of social and
economic policies. A multi-level strategy that aims for all to be educated at grade-level
through a coordinated national strategy is presented to eliminate educational inequality. This
is a must read controversial book that offers educators and policy-makers a fundamental
understanding of how the achievement gap can be eliminated at the population level.
