Full Description
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.
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 Opportunity: 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
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
