Giving Our Children a Fighting Chance: Poverty, Literacy, and the Development of Information Capital

by Susan B. Neuman and Donna C. Celano

Book Overview

This is a compelling, eye-opening portrait of two communities in Philadelphia with drastically different economic resources. Over the course of their 10-year investigation, the authors of this important new work came to understand that this disparity between affluence and poverty has created a knowledge gap--far more important than mere achievement scores--with serious implications for students' economic prosperity and social mobility. At the heart...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807753580
• ISBN13: 9780807753583
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"