Students of Color and the Achievement Gap: Systemic Challenges, Systemic Transformations - Hardcover

Valencia, Richard R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138018805 ISBN 13: 9781138018808

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Students of Color and the Achievement Gap is a comprehensive, landmark analysis of an incontrovertible racialized reality in U.S. K-12 public education---the relentless achievement gap between low-socioeconomic students of color and their economically advantaged White counterparts. Award winning author and scholar Richard Valencia provides an authoritative and systemic treatment of the achievement gap, focusing on Black and Latino/Latina students. He examines the societal and educational factors that help to create and maintain the achievement gap by drawing from critical race theory, an asset-based perspective and a systemic inequality approach.

By showing how racialized opportunity structures in society and schools ultimately result in racialized patterns of academic achievement in schools, Valencia shows how the various indicators of the achievement gap are actually symptoms of the societal and school quality gaps. Following each of these concerns, Valencia provides a number of reform suggestions that can lead to systemic transformations of K-12 education. Students of Color and the Achievement Gap makes a persuasive and well documented case that school success for students of color, and the empowerment of their parents, can only be fully understood and realized when contextualized within broader political, economic, and cultural frameworks.

About this title

About the Author

Richard R. Valencia is a professor educational psychology and faculty associate in the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138018805
• ISBN 13: 9781138018808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 374