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Title

Unequal schools, unequal chances : the challenges to equal opportunity in the Americas / edited by Fernando Reimers.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies : Distributed by Harvard University Press, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Reimers, Fernando.
• David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

Description

xv, 464 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The David Rockefeller Center series on Latin American studies, Harvard University

Subject

• Educational equalization > Latin America
• Educational equalization > United States
• Education and state > Latin America
• Education and state > United States
• Education > Latin America
• Education > United States

Note

• "This book is fifth in a series of works published by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies distributed by Harvard University Press"--P. 4 of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Ch. 1. What can we learn from studying educational opportunity in the Americas and why should we care? / Fernando Reimers -- Ch. 2. Perspectives in the study of educational opportunity / Fernando Reimers -- Ch. 3. Excellence, equity, and diversity in education / Charles V. Willie -- Ch. 4. Educational opportunity and policy in Latin America / Fernando Reimers -- Ch. 5. Educating the poor in Latin America and the Caribbean: examples of compensatory education / Donald Winkler -- Ch. 6. Can education measure up to poverty in Argentina? / Inés Aguerrondo -- Ch. 7. Educational policies and equity in Chile / Juan Eduardo García-Huidobro -- Ch. 8. Education and poverty in Chile: affirmative action in the 1990s / Ernesto Schiefelbein and Paulina Schiefelbein -- Ch. 9. Equity and education in Colombia / Afredo Sarmiento Gómez -- Ch. 10. Poverty and education in Mexico, 1984-1996 / Teresa Bracho -- Ch. 11. The schooling situation of children in highly underprivileged rural localities in Mexico / Patricia E. Muñiz -- Ch. 12. Education and Indian peoples in Mexico: an example of policy failure / Sylvia Schmelkes -- Ch. 13. Function and evaluation of a compensatory program directed at the poorest Mexican states: Chiapas, Guerrero, Hidalgo, and Oaxaca / Carlos Muñoz Izquierdo and Raquel Ahuja Sánchez -- Ch. 14. Education and poverty in Peru / King Bing Wu ... [et al.] -- Ch. 15. Policy and equity: lessons of a third of a century of educational reforms in the United States / Gary Orfield -- Ch. 16. Conclusions: can our knowledge change what low-income children learn? / Fernando Reimers -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 01-13233

ISBN

0674003756

LCCN

00136541

OCLC

45855836

Title

Unequal schools, unequal chances : the challenges to equal opportunity in the Americas / edited by Fernando Reimers.

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies : Distributed by Harvard University Press, c2000.

Series

The David Rockefeller Center series on Latin American studies, Harvard University

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Reimers, Fernando.

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

Research Call Number

JFE 01-13233