Learning Time: In Pursuit of Educational Equity - Softcover

Marisa Saunders (editor)|Jorge Ruiz De Velasco (editor)|Jeannie Oakes (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1682531066 ISBN 13: 9781682531068

Publisher: Harvard Education Press, 2017

Synopsis

This important book explores how education time can be expanded, reimagined, and reorganized in an effort to enhance the educational opportunities and outcomes of disadvantaged students. The editors and contributors address questions of educational equity and opportunity by considering how best to extend learning time in high-poverty schools.

Learning Time examines how the nature, quality, and quantity of education time varies dramatically for affluent and poor children. The book’s contributors provide a comprehensive view of strategies for tackling this issue within the context of the inequities disadvantaged students face. They also explore the positive outcomes associated with expanded learning time and examine the cultural and political underpinnings of our current inequitable system―and describe fundamental, lasting ways to overturn those underlying conditions.

This book promises to be a valuable overview of a vital, understudied field and a practical, useful resource for policy makers and practitioners who are determined to implement reforms for underserved youth.

About this title

About the Author

Marisa Saunders is senior research associate at the Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Jorge Ruiz de Velasco is an associate director for policy and community partnerships at the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University.

Jeannie Oakes is a senior fellow at the Learning Policy Institute, past president of the American Educational Research Association, and former director of educational opportunity and scholarship at the Ford Foundation.

From the Back Cover

Learning Time explores how education time can be expanded, reimagined, and reorganized in an effort to enhance the educational opportunities and outcomes of disadvantaged students. The editors and contributors address questions of educational equity and opportunity by considering how best to extend learning time in high-poverty schools. This important book is a practical, useful resource for policy makers and practitioners who are determined to implement reforms for underserved youth.

"With a focus on equity, coherence, and innovation, the contributors detail widely accessible strategies to improve student outcomes. This book is an important resource for educators and stakeholders seeking best practices--as well as inspiration--to help accelerate their progress in achieving excellence and equity for students."
--Michelle King, superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District

"This volume of provocative and practical essays is loaded with compelling examples of how more time, effectively used, can benefit children. It also supplies informative research and powerful reflections on the potential of increased quality learning time to address educational, social, and economic inequality. A must-read for those seeking a pathway to equity."
--Paul Reville, professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education; founder, Education Redesign Lab; and former Massachusetts Secretary of Education

Marisa Saunders is a principal associate for research and policy at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Jorge Ruiz de Velasco is an associate director for policy and community partnerships at the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and their Communities at Stanford University. Jeannie Oakes is a senior fellow at the Learning Policy Institute, past president of the American Educational Research Association, and former director of educational opportunity and scholarship at the Ford Foundation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard Education Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1682531066
• ISBN 13: 9781682531068
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300