EWA 2013: Opportunity Gaps and Out-of-School Factors: Challenges and Solutions

An EWA session with Prudence Carter, Sean Reardon, Michael Petrilli, and Sarah Garland. Click here for session materialsMuch attention has focused on achievement gaps among children from different demographic groups, and on teacher effectiveness as the chief in-school influence on student performance. But what about factors that carry more weight than teachers? And how can society close opportunity gaps often associated with widely decried achievement gaps in school?

Moderator: Sarah Garland, The Hechinger Report

Prudence Carter, Stanford Graduate School of Education
Michael Petrilli, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Sean Reardon, Stanford Graduate School of Education