The Opportunity Equation Reprint Binding: Paperback Publisher: Random House Inc Publish Date: 2015/08/25 Synopsis: "Citizen Schools is a fresh and personal look at education and the increasingly unequal access to opportunity in America
The book gets beyond the tired debate about charter schools and unions and tests to look at what is really driving the growing opportunity gap - what Schwarz calls a chasm - between upper and lower income children. Schwarz charts the supports and experiences that marked his own childhood and that of his children and shares the story of Citizen Schools, the organization he built, and the thousands of children it serves who were born with little money and few connections but by virtue of repeated positive experiences with professionally successful adults are now catapulting their way into good colleges and good careers. While differences in s...
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