Growing Gaps: Educational Inequality Around the World

by Katherine S. Newman

Book Overview

The last half century has seen a dramatic expansion in access to primary, secondary, and higher education in many nations around the world. Educational expansion is desirable for a country's economy, beneficial for educated individuals themselves, and is also a strategy for greater social harmony. But has greater access to education reduced or exacerbated social inequality? Who are the winners and the losers in the scramble for educational advantage?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199732191
• ISBN13: 9780199732197
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"