Education Inequality Opportunity and Mobility

by Eng, Norman; Ornstein, Allan C.

• ISBN13: 9781119390732
• ISBN10: 1119390737
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-01-30
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Income inequality has become the defining issue in the U.S. since the end of the recession. With stagnant wages and declining mobility among the working and middle class, many Americans believe the economic system unfairly favors the wealthy. Education can change this. To do so, however, we need to create the right conditions for students to succeed (i.e., increasing opportunity) and explore solutions to help them move ahead (i.e., improving mobility). This issue of the Journal of Social Issues, Education Inequality: Opportunity and Mobility, focuses on this theme.

Author Biography

Norman Eng is an adjunct assistant professor of childhood education at the City University of New York, Brooklyn College and City College of New York. His research focuses on 21^st century education, including publication in Society journal and as a chapter in the book?Contemporary Issues in Curriculum, published by Pearson in 2014. Most recently, he co-edited a symposium on 21st Century Excellence in Education with Allan Ornstein and published articles for the National School Board Journal and Education Week.

Allan Ornstein is a professor of education at St. John's University, New York. He is a former Fulbright-Hayes Scholar and Screening Committee Member of the Commission and author of more than four hundred articles and 60 books on education and social issues. His Foundations of Education book is in its 13^th edition (since 1976) and his new book Excellence vs. Equality, from which this article is based on, was recently published in 2015. Readers can check his website, allanornsteinbooks.com, for more information.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Reframing the Inequality Debate toward Opportunity and Mobility..........619
Norman Eng and Allan Ornstein

SECTION I: OPPORTUNITY
School Finance & the Distribution of Equal Educational Opportunity
in the Postrecession U.S..............................................................629
Bruce D. Baker

The Social Genome Model: Estimating How Policies Affect
Outcomes, Mobility and Inequality across the Life Course....................656
Gregory Acs, Steven Martin, Jonathan A. Schwabish,
and Isabel V. Sawhill

Education Inequality: Broadening Public Attitudes through Framing........676
Norman Eng

Global Equality of Educational Opporunity: Creating the Conditions
for all Students to Succeed.........................................................696
Andreas Schleicher and Pablo Zoido

SECTION II: MOBILITY
From Deficiency to Strength: Shifting the Mindset about
Education Inequality.................................................................720
Yong Zhao

The Career Pathways Movement: A Promising Strategy for
Increasing Opportunity and Mobility.............................................740
Robert B. Schwartz

INTRODUCTION

Reframing the Inequality Debate toward Opportunity and Mobility 619

Norman Eng and Allan Ornstein

Children's Reasoning about Poverty, Economic Mobility, 
and Helping Behavior: Results of a Curriculum
Intervention in the Early School Years..........................................760
Rashmita S. Mistry, Lindsey Nenadal, Katherine M. Griffin,
Frederick J. Zimmerman, Hasmik Avetisian Cochran,
Carla-Anne Thomas, and Christopher Wilson

"I'm Still Waiting On That Golden Ticket": Attitudes
toward and Experiences with Opportunity in The Streets
of Black America...................................................................789
Yasser Arafat Payne and Tara Marie Brown

SECTION III: COMMENTARY
Commentary........................................................................812
Helen F. Ladd

SECTION IV: LEWIN AWARD ADDRESS
Carrying On Kurt Lewin's Legacy in Many Current
Domains: Lewin Award 2015...................................................828
Philip G. Zimbardo